WAR ON GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 27, 1 August 1939, Page 9

WAR ON GERMANY

DECLARED BY CZECHS

INSTRUCTIONS BY LEADERS

PUNISHMENT AHEAD

The following is a translation of one of the pamphlets recently printed in the German "Protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia and passed among the Czech population, says the "Manchester Guardian": — To all loyal Czechs, —We still have our Republic, recognition by the Great Powers, embassies in Prague, a Government beyond the frontiers. There and at home new legions are rapidly growing, arid with them the determination to gain ouivfreedom. Today the conditions for the struggle for the right are better than twenty-five years ago. But we must possess in our own land, our enslaved fatherland, the spirit of 1914-18. We must do so the more the fewer rights we have as captives of hungry cheats. Your true Government sends you fraternal greetings; it wishes you strength in unity, and it demands that you shall help it with all your power and stand firm and unyielding until the hour that will call for the determined readiness of all. RESTRAINT URGED. Have no more to do with the occupying forces than is absolutely necessary. 1. Always call our countries simply Bohemia and Moravia. Honour""' our flag, our coat-of-arms, our motto. 2. Always refer to the aliens politely i by their names .without titles —Herr J Hitler, Herr Neurath, and so on. 3. Confine the activities and demonstrations imposed on you (addresses, articles, deputations, flags) to the minimum, and in complying bring to the fore anything that can strengthen our nation; carry them out in such a way that everyone can see that the performance is under duress. 4. Carry out enforced services, sales j of goods, supplies, tax payments, whether you suffer from them or are entrusted with them, in such a way that the national strength and mobilisa- j tion are as little injured by them as can be helped. 5. Be particularly cautious in disposing of land, precious metals, weapons, foodstuffs, and articles of daily consumption. Give your customers manufactured goods instead. 6. Carry out quickly and reliably a voluntary census in Bohemia and Moravia, including the ceded territory if possible. This is needed before the census in the German Reich, before a new imposture begins with the German colonisation in the expropriated factories. NO PROVOCATION. In your dealings with the Germans always remember that for the present you have no rights and no freedom. Explain to fellow-citizens, and especially to children, the new "laws," which one day will be a historical curiosity, but never give any pretext for open persecution. There is secret persecution enough. Let the young ones carefully watch the enemy so that no movement escapes you. Act as if you simply did not see the Germans and their parades of troops. Ignore them. Do not pay them the compliment of looking at them ("they are ashamed enough of themselves"), and if you come into contact with them confine yourself to a dry politeness. But secretly photograph everything that may arouse your enthusiasm and demonstrate their lies, including, of course, our traitors and the curious at parades. Collect proclamations, pictures, happenings, requisition documents, Press cuttings, and the humorous sayings that circulate. Accumulate these documents in a safe place, and also these: a list of the Germans, their addresses, their centres, offices, record-rooms, detachments, armament, stores, car parks, aircraft, telephones, and wireless transmitters. Keep a specially keen watch on our traitorous past fellow-citizens, who will suffer the greatest and heaviest penalties. NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Strengthen the will to resist by humour, song, and counsel. Correct the lying versions of history and politics, recall past history, the many assaults and betrayals our neighbours have committed against us, only to leave us in the "end after their inglorious defeat. Read and disseminate encouraging and helpful literature, imaginative or instructive. In clubs and associations, try to get speakers of proved loyalty and courage for addresses and confidential reports, on the pretext of giving lectures on health, economic, or cultural subjects. Arrange popular theatrical performances, concerts, social gatherings, exhibitions, excursions. Make use even of family visits to strengthen the national unity. Maintain by all possible means confidential' contact with all compatriots, especially •in the ceded territory, and as far as possible with those abroad. Get hold of foreign papers, and spread true news. ■ Be unimpassioned and careful of the truth. Do not spead unfounded rumours, and do not let imagination run away with you. The enemy will spread malicious falsehoods: nip them in the bud. Make honest and impartial use among yourselves and among the enemy of whispering propaganda. Listen-in regularly to the foreign wireless; take shares in the work, and spread the true news. Learn Polish, Yugoslav, Russian, Rumanian, and the world languages. ■ Learn from allied nations and from' our future compatriots. If you know the enemy's language, keep him continually under observation. j "YOU WILL WIN THROUGH." Learn everything that is necessary for war, for defence and offence. Take care of your health; make a rule of modesty, endurance, tact, and readiness for sacrifice. Continue military exercises, unostentatiously. Keep shelters and secret rooms in readiness, for protection against the plunderers. (Iron rations; instruments, weapons, cars, wireless, loud-speakers, street megaphones, etc.) Do not tell yourselves that you are unarmed. There are such quantities of arms around you, and you will take them, as was done at Samara. With your iron circus you will win through, you must win. Organise delegates for every street, and deputies to fill their place, for auxiliary services and for mutual aid. Propagate national fertility and promote large families. Keep attentively on the watch, and be ready when our hour strikes. Be generous towards other peoples. Remember that there are also loyal and decent Slovaks, though they, too, may now be in captivity. The Poles are ripe for an understanding with us; America. England, France, Russia, aye, even Italy, and especially Yugoslavia, know their true duty to us.

We have declared war on the hopelessly incorrigible German Reich,

which will be punished and have its claws cut with the aid of all truly human and godly forces.

Rise on guard, rise to arras! Our leadex*s —Zhilzhka and Masaryk. Ou« motto —Truth prevails. For a free Government of Czecho-Slovakia, for new legion? fny- the national brotherhood.