Skirmishes Continue On Czech Border
(Received 2.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 20
The Prague representative of the British United Press says an army announcement states that five Czechs were shot dead by German Customs officials in a frontier clash yesterday. He adds that during works in connection with rectification of boundaries Germans evacuated the village of Zelochovice, near Litogerice. The Czech patrol entered to confirm the evacuation and some of the townspeople lowered swastika flags from their windows. A Henleinist policeman dashed off to a nearby town and returned with German Customs officials, who fired on the Czech patrol, killing one soldier and three policemen. Subsequently, the mayor of the district was killed in further shooting.
A farmer* whom a German soldier recently wounded at Vazacka, has died.
Hungarian Terrorism.
The military authorities at Prague, states another message, report that 17 sticks of dynamite were removed from the railway between Uzhorod and Kapusany.
.Hungarian terrorists, it is alleged, were caught in the act of placing the explosives. *'
A captive balloon travelled along the Hungarian side of the Slovak frontier, dropping leaflets subversive of Czech authority.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 7
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