DEATH SENTENCE IN PRAGUE
CHARGE OF SPYING FOR BRITAIN
OTHER ARRESTS MADE (Rec. 8 p.m.) PRAGUE, Sept. 23. It is officially announced that a Czechoslovak Army captain, Kudoli Hrazdilek, has been sentenced to death on a charge of espionage for Britain. Captain Hrazdilek was found guilty oi handing service information to a British intelligence agent. More than 30 alleged spies, including three said to have been trainea and sent to Czechoslovakia by the Ameri-
can counter-intelligence service in Germany, have been arrested. A communique announcing this said that the arrested persons belonged to a widespread espionage network organised by
a former official of the Czech Ministry of Information who had tied to Germany after the February coup. The Associated Press says that prison sentences ranging from one to nine years have been imposed on 22 men and women charged with circulating
anti-Government and anti-Communist pamphlets, some of which alleged that Mr Jan Masaryk, the former Foreign Minister, had been murdered. •
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25608, 24 September 1948, Page 7
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