MASS MURDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 5

MASS MURDER

y- .. NAZI DEEDS IN CZECH TERRITORIES SEVENTEEN HUNDRED VICTIMS KILLED. ' THOUSANDS MORE ARRESTED. A Prague message which has been received in Paris, Daventry reports, states that more than 1700 people have been killed by S.S. Guards in Bohemia and Moravia as a reprisal for the Czech national demonstrations. This report is corroborated by a report from a German source, which adds that one-third of the 1700 were Jews. Several thousand more people are also reported to have been arrested in the past few days. FUNERAL PARTY NINE BOYS & TWO GIRLS EXECUTED. OTHERS TAKEN TO PRISON CAMP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 23. In a telephone message the Bucharest correspondent of the “New York Times,” Mr Kovass, says it is reported from Prague through uncensored channels that the family of the Czech student, Jan Opletal, who died as the result of six revolver wounds, received his ashes on November 14. Students of both sexes carrying the Czech flag took the urn to the tomb of the unknown soldier, but were driven back by Germans. Thirty were arrested. Nine boys and two girls were publicly executed and the rest sent to a concentration camp in Germany.