HARSH IMPOSITION
ON CZECHOSLOVAK CITY. RETALIATION FOR MURDER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received June 9, 12.45 p.m. LONDON, June 8. The British United Press correspondent in Prague states that Baron von Ncurath (head of the Secret Council) returned to-day from Berlin and imposed the most rigorous proclamation upon the city of Kladno as a sequel to the murder of a tierman policeman. The proclamation forbade open-air meetings, closed cinemas and schools, and deposed the mayor and city councillors. New police have been appointed and the German Commissioner has ordered flie- closing of all doors ami windows from 2 p.m. to 5 n.m. Those open would he fired on. Afore severe measures are threatened ir the murderer is not taken into custody bv to-morrow. CHIEF OF POLICE. It is revealed that Hie murdered Gorman was Wilhelm Knie.xt, chief ol police. His body was found bulletriddled with a revolver alongside, which had been fired three times. Sixty Czechs have been arrested in Kladno where the police were publicly disarmed in the market square. Ihc newspapers say the city has been a centre of unrest, agitators victimising Czech minc;-s, foundry workers and others who approve Baron von Neurath’s proclamation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 8
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