REPORTED NIGHT ATTACK ON CZECH CUSTOMS
(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, this day. Men are reported to have crossed from Germany at night time and machine-gunned the Customs House at Asch, the most defenceless town in Sudetenland because it is almost surrounded by German territory. They forced officials to retreat until daybreak, when they returned reinforced and found no trace of the aggressors. The Cuatom. officer* two of whom were wounded in the course of the attack, refrained from ahootuig, but fired rockets for assistance. Many Sudeten, are returning from Germany.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 9
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