Phone Links Severed
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 21.
AU telephone communications between Britain and the Soviet Union were cut soon after the Prague announcement that Communist bloc troops had invaded Czechoslovakia. The General Post Office said: “All telephone calls to Moscow are subject to indefinite delay—they are just not answering.” All telephone lines between Vienna and Czechoslovakia have been cut since 3.15 a.m. local time, according to the Austrian Post Office. Travel to Czechoslovakia from the West has been suspended since early today, and the Austrian Ministry of the Interior says that from midnight last night, travel to Hungary from Austria was also banned. An official of the Austrian Foreign Ministry said tanks were blocking the bridge at Bratislava, and Austrian travellers had been ordered back by troops.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 15
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