FRONTIER CLASH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 14

FRONTIER CLASH

FIYE CZECHS SHOT ACTION BY GERMANS A MAYOR ALSO KILLED ACTS OF TERRORISM By Telegraph—Fresa Association —Copyright LONDON, Oct. 20 A Czech Army announcement slates that five Czechs were shot dead in a frontier clash by German Customs officials yesterday, says the Prague correspondent of the British United Press. During work 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 Sudeten policeman dashed oft' to the adjacent town of Cizkovice and returned with German Customs officials, who fired on the Czech patrol, killing one soldier and three policemen. Subsequently the mayor of one of the districts was killed in further shooting. A farmer, whom a German soldier recently wounded at Vazacka, has died. Tho military authorities at Prague, states another message, report that 17 sticks of dynamite were removed from tho railway between Uzhorod and Kapusany. Hungarian terrorists, it is alleged, wero caught in the act of placing the explosive. A captive balloon travelled along the Hungarian side of tho Slovak frontier, the occupants dropping leaflets subversive of Czech authority.