CZECHS SHOT DEAD

Evening Star, Issue 23094, 21 October 1938, Page 9

CZECHS SHOT DEAD

A FRONTIER CLASH PATROL FIRED OH BY GERMAN CUSTOMS OFFICIALS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 20. (Received October 21, at 10 a.m.) The Prague correspondent of the British United Press says an army announcement states that five Czechs were shot dead in a frontier clash by German Customs officials yesterday. It adds that during the work in connection with the rectification of boundaries the Germans evacuated the village of Zelochovice, near Litogerice. A Czech (patrol entered to confirm the evacuation. Some of the townspeople lowered the Swastika flags from windows, and a Henleinist policeman dashed off to the nearby town of Cizkovico and returned with German Customs officials, who fired on the Czech patrol, killing a soldier and three policemen. Subsequently the mayor of one of the districts was killed in further shooting. A farmer, whom a German soldier recently wounded at Vazacka, has died. HUNGARIAN TERRORISTS ACTIVE PRAGUE, October 20. (Received October 21, at 10.5 a.m.) The military authorities report that 17 sticks of dyuamite were removed from the railway between Uzhorod and Kapusany. Hungarian terrorists were allegedly caught in the act of placing the explosive, A captive balloon travelled on the Hungarian side of the Slovak frontier dropping leaflets subversive to Czech authority.