CZECHO-SLOVAK ATTITUDE.
SYMPATHY WITH ENTENTE.
SEEKING INDEPENDENCE. ■'; A..and N.Z. - LONDON, Aug. 8. A Czecho-Slovak officer, who lias arrived in London from the Murraan coast, in «n interview, said: "Austria mobi- . ■■ lised on the outbreak of war, and dejv tailed us to fight on the Carpathian •:; "front: Three hundred of our men and six ;v officers in January, 1915, walked over to •; - \ the Russian lines and becamo prisoners ";',, before f they bad seen fighting. : Several "* hundred thousand later followed the' ex- , ample, .All are firm friends of the En■v k { , tente, and the vast majority are still in ; arms in Russia and Siberia. We fought - f. with Russia until the Bolsheviks made "r • peace with Germany. We felt after the •' •>%.. treaty was signed: that. there wag no longer 'a chance of the Czecho-Slovaks ■'•'' <'•• obtaining national t independence, ;and we ;l refused to fay down aims when; the Bolsheviks ordered us to do so."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 8
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