DEATH SENTENCE
PASSED ON CZECH PREMIER ACCUSED OF CONSPIRING AGAINST REICH. BROADCAST BY DR. BENES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.! LONDON, October 1. The death sentence has been imposed on General Alois Elias, the Prime Minister of the Nazi-con-trolled Czech Protectorate. He was accused of conspiring against the Reich. Heydrich, the German “Protector” of Czechoslovakia, has extended the state of emergency to cover three more districts in Moravia. In a speech broadcast to the Czechs by the 8.8. C., the spokesman of Dr. E. Benes, head of the Czech Provisional Government in London, told the Czech people not to let themselves be provoked into open demonstrations. The time for such action, he said, was not yet come. The people were warned against German agents posing as Czech patriots who might provoke incidents and give the Germans an excuse for further action.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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140DEATH SENTENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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