UNDER THE NAZI HEEL.
EXECUTIONS IN PRAGUE. DEATH SENTENCES NUMBER 350. LONDON, October 19. The Prague radio announces that the Chief Adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture (M. Drolik) has been shot and 11 others, including five Jews, hanged. Seventeen mote Czechs were executed to-day in Prague. To-morrow will end the third week of Hydrich’s reign of terror, in which the courts have sentenced 350 persons to death. Czech sources in London have learned that the largest chocolate factory in Prague, which was working at full pressure turning out chocolate for the German Army, has been burnt out. A number of workers have been arrested and charged with arson. Czech children to-day found many schools closed because the Germans are purging teachers. Heydrich's predecessor as Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, von Neurath, had closed Czech universities. Heydrich has handed over the Czech House of Parliament to a German organisation Eighteen Communists charged in Italian military courts in Yugoslavia with murder and sabotage have been shot.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 7, 20 October 1941, Page 5
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