CALL ON CZECHS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1943, Page 3

CALL ON CZECHS

GERMAN MOBILISATION DECREE BROADCAST BY DR. FRANK. GREATER EFFORT DEMANDED FROM FRANCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, February 27. “Czechs are to be totally mobilised for the German war effort,” said the German governor of the Czech Protectorate, Dr. Frank, in a broadcast over the Prague radio. “The same total mobilisation laws will apply to them as to the Germans,” said Frank. “If Germany were defeated it would mean that the Czech towns and villages would go up in flames. Stalin could enter Germany a victor only over the body of every single German and every single Czech. The Vichy radio today said, “Hitler’s declaration means, as France is a Continental nation, that she must participate in the struggle against Bolshevism. Frenchmen must show a common fiont and prove their adherence to the new order, not by empty gestures ,but by convincing action for Germany. The Berne correspondent of the “New York Times” says private dispatches from Berlin assert that a heavier draft of French labour is imminent as a result of Hitler’s new total mobilisation order. It is stated that Laval has volunteered to introduce a more satisfactory procedure, replacing the present French labour draft, which admittedly failed. (Hitler, in his proclamation to the Nazi Party on February 24, after referring to his being “chosen by Providence,” said: “How else could it have been possible to force all the occupies countries in Europe to work and fight for Germany against Russia ana the other Allied nations? We consider it quite natural not to spare alien lives at a time when such sacrifices are demanded of us.”)