RUSSIANS MINING URANIUM IN SUDETENLAND FIELDS
(10.30 a.m-) LONDON, July 21. The deputy Chief of Staff in the Czech Army, General Antonin Bolnunil Hasal, who fled into the American zone of Germany, said in Heidelberg today that Russia had completely taken over large areas of the Sudctenland where new veins of uranium ore have been discovered.
The Russians had 7000 German prisoners of war working in the uranium mines in the Jachymov area. General Hasal said that at least 70 per cent of the enlisted men in the Czech army were anti-Communist, but probably a much smaller proportion o£ Czechoslovak officers were anti-
Communist because of the number purged since the Communist coup. The country’s air force was at a low level. General Hasal declared that he planned to continue the fight against communism.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22696, 22 July 1948, Page 5
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