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ARMED NAZIS IN PRAGUE NUMBER 20,000 SECRET MANIFESTO ISSUED BY STUDENTS. AWAKENING THE CONSCIENCE OF CIVILISATION. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. November 21. The Prague radio announced today that the curfew has been withdrawn but martial law remains. Twenty thousand armed guards occupy the city. The Bohemian-Moravian frontier ha.<been closed. A Budapest message states that further arrests have been made in the Czech protectorate, mostly in Prague and Brunn, but at Kladno the chief of police, six other officials and 24 policemen have been arrested. Students have circulated a secret manifesto throughout the protectorate stating: “We are happy if we have awakened the conscience of the civilised world." Very few people arc being allowed to cross the border between the provinces of Moravia and Slovakia, a radio message states. Foreign journalists have been refused permission to travel to Prague on their own account, but will be conducted on an arranged tour, during which one Swede will represent all neutral correspondents in Berlin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 5
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165UNDER HEAVY GUARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 5
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