WAVE OF ARRESTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Gestapo Throw Prisoners Into Old Dungeons
(Received January 3, 9.-10 p.m.) LONDON, January 3.
A new wave of arrests lias swept over Czechoslovakia, says the Belgrade. correspondent of "The Tinies.” Victims are army ollicers, including four generals, members ot the Government “troops,” also (he oilice staff at the Skoda works and journalists.
The arrest of Government troopers is the result, of infiltration in the ranks by German spies. The entire foreign correspondence staff at Skoda has been taken into custody. The Gestapo raided the headquarters of the illegal newspaper “To Arms,” and is believed to have killed a number of editorial writers. Prague prisons are full. Dungeons which were formerly exhibited' as examples of medieval barbarism are again employed. The process of Germanization is being expedited. Villages are evacuated for German colonization. All educational establishments are closed. Quantities of food are being transferred to Germany.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 85, 4 January 1940, Page 7
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