CZECH REGIME ORDERS 50,000 ARRESTS OF “UNRELIABLE, HOSTILE” PEOPLE TO BE USED IN LABOUR CAMPS
(Received 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 7 The United Press correspondent at Vienna says: Western diplomats said that the Czech Ministry of the Interior issued a confidential order to all of the regional offices of the political police last month requesting the arrest of fifty thousand ‘‘unreliable, hostile elements.” They were to be used in labour camps, according to the order. This move is believed to have, been prompted by complaints, from Moscow, that Czech heavy industry and uranium production had been neglected. About ten thousand people, one-quarter of them women, are said to have been arrested. Already eight thousand are reported to be working in the Jackymov mines.
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Grey River Argus, 8 November 1949, Page 5
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123CZECH REGIME ORDERS 50,000 ARRESTS OF “UNRELIABLE, HOSTILE” PEOPLE TO BE USED IN LABOUR CAMPS Grey River Argus, 8 November 1949, Page 5
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