WAR ON NAZISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 7

WAR ON NAZISM

STIRRING CALL TO CZECHS BY DR. BENES STRUGGLE AGAINST CRIMINAL REGIME. FOR FREEDOM IN EUROPE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh: LONDON, September 20. Dr Benes, introduced as the second President of the Czechoslovakian Republic, in a broadcast from the 8.8. C. last evening, made a stirring call to his countrymen to rally to the standard and help stamp out Nazism. He said the mad barbarism abroad in Europe showed that the Nazi leaders were aware their regime was ending. He called on the Czechs to arise on the old frontiers. Czech soldiers were rallying to fight with the Allied armies, whose aircraft would fly over Czech towns giving encouragement and assistance. "Do not submit Hold fast to the flag.” he said. * “At this moment, we here and you there are in open fight with the German Nazis, against whom we abroad have declared war in the name of the Czechoslovak nation. The war will not cease till the Nazi regime is destroyed. “Let us pledge ourselves that from this day we shall each of us stand unshakable and uncompromising in the daily struggle against a criminal regime and against the enemy who defiled our holy Hradshin and who will pay dearly for it. "Now let us go forward united in our struggle for a free Czechoslovakia in a free Europe.” CZECH UPRISING DISORDERS IN BOHEMIA & MORAVIA. (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON September 20. The Ministry of Information states that it is learned in authoritative circles that a revolutionary movement started on Sunday in Bohemia and Moravia was preceded a few days previously by labour demonstrations in Prague. There were considerable casualties on both sides.