POLITICAL REFUGEES
UNDERGROUND ORGANISATION (Rec. 10.0 a.m.) PRAGUE, Aug. 27. Security police announced that they had arrested 11 persons in the Southern Moravian town of Znojmo, incliid* ing the Prior of Znojmo Monastery. Father Antonin Zemek, for alleged connection with an organisation directing the escape of political refugees. ( The statement said that the People s Party and other Roman Catholic organisation* had set up an escape organisation. Znojom Monastery was* the stCene of underground activities where would-be escapees made contacts and went into hiding until a border crossing was arranged. The escapees made contact with another monastery in Vienna, where they handed over reports from Czechoslovakia to Germah member* of an ecclesiastical order.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 273, 28 August 1948, Page 5
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