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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1939, Page 8

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THE ATTEMPTED SLOVAK REVOLT ' ’ / INSURGENTS DISARMED AND ARRESTED. SOME DEMONSTRATIONS IN BRATISLAVA. J3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. . (Received This Pay 10.55 a.m.) PRAGUE, March 10. i Notification of dismissal and warrants for their arrest were simultaneously- presented to the Slovak Ministers. Czech troops confiscated thousands of rifles and' huge quantities of ammunition at the Hlinka headquarters in Bratislava and also disarmed Storm Troopers of the German Nazi Party. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bratislava and Pjstany. Two Minis'ters, Durchapsky and Prucinsky, who last week visited Marshal Goering in Germany, are definitely under arrest. The German News Agency states that two German Secretaries of State to the Czech Cabinet,- Karmasan and Matl, have disappeared. There were sporadic demonstrations in Bratislava this afternoon. EX-MINISTERS CONFINED ACTION BY AUTHORITIES IN GOOP TIME. (Received This Pay, 10.5 a.m.) PRAGUE, March 10.' Count Tiso, and the other dismissed Ministers, are confined to their houses under police supervision. The Government knew on March 7 that the Hlinka Guards had planned a coup d’etat for March 10. The authorities prepared their putsch quietly, sending to a concentration camp many of the ringleaders. CITY UNDER GUARD CROWPS PEFY MARTIAL LAW. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) BRATISLAVA, March 10. Sixty Hlinka Guards, including a majority of the movement’s leaders, have been arrested. Troops with fixed bayonets and tanks patrol the streets. It is reported that the authorities, ;is a precaution, have armed the most trustworthy Czech citizens. In defiance of martial law, crowds before the Government Buildings shouted: "We want a free and independent Slovakia!” PROTEST TO HITLER CZECH ACTION CHALLENGED. NEW GOVERNMENT SAID TO BE ILLEGAL. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) VIENNA, March 10. The wireless station announced that Dr Tiso had protested to Herr Hitler. Another Vienna broadcast declared that the Czechs had violated the constitution and that the new Government of Slovakia was illegal. i