YOUNG CHILDREN ARRESTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 5

YOUNG CHILDREN ARRESTED

Later in the morning the university lecture rooms were entered and students and children alike were arrested. Several high schools were raided and boys and girls aged from 11 to 16 were arrested. The university clinic was entered and all the patients expelled. Transport was provided only for those operated on during the previous night. About 8000 prisoners were taken to the Ruzyn barracks in the Sparta football stadium. They were drenched with cold water and left without food till evening. Then, before the eyes of their fellow students, 25 youths, beginning with the president of the Students’ Association, were shot dead. The next day the remainder were sent in trucks to Germany.

The correspondent says all Germans in Prague are now armed.

It is officially stated, a radio message reports, that though martial law has been lifted in Prague, a warning has been issued that it will be reimposed if there are any further disturbances.

In the meantime repression goes on. The recent speech from London of M. Masaryk, the former Czech Ambassador, that he had received secret information that Dr Hacha was imprisoned, has resulted in the Nazis clamping down a strict censorship. According to a Swiss report, mails to countries outside Bohemia and. Moravia have been stopped.