Czechs Not On Train
(N.Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) VIENNA, September 2. Mystery today surrounded the whereabouts of some 500 Czechoslovaks due in Vienna on the Prague-Vienna express last night The Austrian Red Cross said last night they expected 600 tourists at Vienna’s Franz Josef station—but a railways spokesman said today only 96 had arrived. "I can only assume that the Russians have tightened the border controls and are not letting some people through,” the official said. An Action Committee on Czechoslovakia spokesman said: “A woman passenger on the train told us that many passengers, especially young people, had to get out on the Czechoslovak-Austrian border at Ceske Velenice.” But a Czechoslovak official at Ceske Velenice, just across the border from the Austrian station of Gmund, told N.Z.P.A.-Reuter today: “Nobody got out here.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 15
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