NAZI ACTION AGAINST STUDENTS AND OTHER CZECHS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 5

NAZI ACTION AGAINST STUDENTS AND OTHER CZECHS

Number of Cities Under Martial Law THOUSANDS OF PERSONS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED SECRET RADIO DEFIES BLOODTHIRSTY GANGSTERS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 19. Many students and other Czechs have been executed and a very large number arrested as a result of unrest developing from student demonstrations in Prague and other towns in the protectorate. . A Paris message says the cause of the disturbances is supposed to be the killing of a student during the demonstrations in Prague last week when 120 were supposed to have been killed and 3000 arrested. Paris Radio announced that 30 persons were shot in the demonstration and thousands were wounded apart from those executed Other accounts say that Black Guards with machine-guns are,stationed in the streets where students’ homes are located. A Zurich message states that the Black Shirts have completely occupied Prague and have placed machine-guns and light artillery opposite the university. Reinforcements from Germany have entered other Czechoslovakian towns. Five thousand motorised German troops arrived in Prague with artillery on Friday as a measure against the extension 01. student riots. The Paris report of the demonstration states that an urn containing the ashes of a student killed, in an earlier demonstration was sent home with instructions to bury it secretly, but a sister of the student told her surviving brother, whereupon the students marched to tin 1 Unknown Warrior’s monument and sang the national anthem. They tried to approach the residence of the Reich Protector, Baron von Neurath. The Germans, fearing a riot, dispatched two lorries to the university, whose crews opened fire; with machine-guns and automatic rifles, killing a boy and fatally injuring two students, while a lame old woman was thrown in Mohlau River. More Black Guards arrived and stormed the building and arrested the students. They fortified the roofs and windows and stormed other houses and made additional arrests, quite apart from brutally attacking citizens during the past few days.