ACTS OF REPRESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 9

ACTS OF REPRESSION

CZECH OBJECTIVES

RESUSCITATION OF STATE

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) [Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. "The Times" correspondent on the German frontier says that the closest secrecy is being maintained in Berlin about the repression of Czech patriots. From references in German-con-trolled Prague newspapers, he says, it is clear that two groups are operating. The first is seeking to resuscitate the Czech State on tne basis of the separation of Bohemia and Moravia from the Reich. The second is accumulating large quantities of all kinds of weapons in readiness to overthrow Germany as soon as a favourable chance presents itself. It is composed largely of officers, including army generals, many of whom have already been executed. It is pointed out that the breach which formerly separated the Czechs and the Slovaks is closing up under the German domination. Over 200 persons were charged before the. People's Court at Prague for participation in widespread sabotage plots. Otokar Klapka, former Mayor of Prague, was sentenced to death for alleged attempted high treason and connivance with the enemy. A Vichy message reports that Marshal Petain has commuted the death sentence on Paul Colette. M. Laval had asked the Minister of Justice, M.. Barthelmy, that Colette should not be executed. The Moscow radio states that Fritz Klausen, chief of the Norwegian Nazi Party, has resigned. The anti-Nazi German newspaper in London, "Die Zeitung," quotes a report from Stockholm that negotiations between Herr Terboven, the Nazi Administrator, and Major Quisling resulted in an agreement stipulating that the German civil administration will be withdrawn from Norway after the war on condition that the Quisling Party has won sufficient support among the Norwegians. It is stipulated that Major Quisling should be appointed State leader. The German army of occupation .is to remain in Norway with the object of guaranteeing the country's safety until a Norwegian defence force is trained under German instructors, and also laid down that the Germans shall tain some localities for bases and also the right to maintain perpetual garrisons. Vichy reports that anti-Jewish terrorists dynamited six synagogues in Paris during the night. An attempt was made to blow up a seventh, but •the bomb was found and removed. Two people were injured.