URGED TO FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 7

URGED TO FIGHT.

CZECH CITIZENS.

Do All Possible To Sabotage

Nazi War Machine.

TREATMENT IN BRITAIN. Unlttd Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 11..T0 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. The United Press correspondent in Warsaw states (hat a Government proclamation urged former citizens of Czechoslovakia to take up arms against their "hereditary enemy, Germany," and urged the Czechoslovaks still under the domination of the swastika to do everything in their power to sabotage the German war machine.

Sir John Anderson made a statement in tho House of Commons that citizens of Czechoslovakia would be treated as enemy aliens, subject to review a special committee. Special consideration would be afforded genuine AustroOerman refugees.

It is reported in Czech circles in London that 1700 prominent Czechs were arrested and will bo held as hostages for loyalty to Germany.

An Independent Cable Service mes«»jre states that Dr. Renes, former Czech President, in a message to Mr. Chainlierltiin, said: "At the moment when the British people are obliged to wage war imposed on Poland, (Jreat Britain and France by Nazi (lernianv, I wish to express mv deep mid unalterable feelings of sympathy mid the desire and decision of the Czech* and Slovaks to join your peopie in this struggle for a free Kurope. "We Czechoslovak citizens consider ourselves being also at war with the German military forces, and we shall march with your people till final victory and tlie. liberation of our Fatherland."