SLOVAK PARLIAMENT STORMED BY EXTREMIST GROUP
(Rec. 1 p.m.) PRAGUE, Sept. 26. The Independent Prague newspaper Svobodne Noviny, states that a semi-military formation of 440 strong, led by a former partisan leader, stormed the Slovak Parliament and searched the building for Dr Josef Lettrich, president of the Slovak National Assembly and Democratic Party leader. . The partisans, before forcing the entrances of the buildihg, demanded a radical purge in Slovakia’s administration. ~ , Reuter’s correspondent says tnat Communists have been demanding for some time a clean-up of what they term the “reactionary elements, in Slovakia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1947, Page 7
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