GRIM WARFARE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9

GRIM WARFARE.

CZECH RESISTANCE. Underground Fight Against - Germans. OBSTRUCTION TACTICS. Independent Cable Service. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 28. The "Sunday Express" says that evidence is accumulating of the Czechs waging a grim and relentless underground warfare against the Nazis. Czech anger has been stiffened by a GO per cent increase in food prices after enormous quantities of grain and cattle had been carted off to Germany. "Go slow" rules are the order in every factory. Key parts of machines disappear, and secretly printed pamphlets instruct Czechs how best to hinder Germans. Despite the utmost pressure, only 500 children attend German schools from a total of 26,000.

It is reported that Baron von Neurath, Nazi Protector of Moravia and Bohemia, fled hurriedly at night from his headquarters at Hradchin Castle to a hotel in Prague, refusing to sleep in the ea.-stle. Hundreds of 3'oung girls disappeared mysteriously in Prague. Some have been murdered. Nearly all are Sudeteus and Slovaks, but none are Czechs. Nazis me unable to tret the vast : .'/.uch petrol reserves which are stored in UMiierg round tanks. locked by combinations. l'ort\>tw'o (-.spurt* have been >e«t to gaol because they refuse to reveal the secret of the lock*. GERMANS TAKE OVER. CZECH ARMS FACTORIES. PRAGUE, May 28. Boards of directors of the Skoda and Brunn arms factories have been reconstituted to enable German control to be effective.