Kidnapping Of Czech Girl Feared

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 14

Kidnapping Of Czech Girl Feared

LONDON, August 25. British peliee are investigating ths mysterious dissppesranee of a IT-yntivoM CsMhoslovak girl whose father waa named by free Prague radio stations as a collaborator with the Russian invaders.

A Scotland Yard spokesman eonflnnod today that potice were trying to trace Nada Bliak, daughter of Mr Vasil Mak, a leader of the Slovak Communist Party. Sunday newspaper reports indicated she may have been kidnapped by the Russians. Miss Bitak disappeared last Wednesday from an International Vehnrtary Service eamp in the little market town of Wigton, near the Scottish border.

Other I.V.S. volunteer* reported to poMee that the giri left suddenly ia a Urge blaek air with a “foreign man and wwßia.’* The couple first talked to Miso Mak a* *be worked ditch dredging, and they later boarded a train with her at nearby Carlisle, bound for London. Friends said she looked upset when she left Next day her fellow J.V.S. workers received a note postmarked London saying, “I am all right” _ _ An official tt the Czechoslovak Embassy in London was quoted as saying. “It looks as though Nada was kidnapped.” The couple are reported to have told her in English and Russian that her mother was ill. They Hid her father

would be ringing the embassy and would want to speak to her. “But we haven’t heard from ber.” the embassy official said.