TROOPS SHOT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23491, 31 October 1939, Page 8

TROOPS SHOT

AUSTRIAN MUTINY ff ' - • ' STERN NAZI ACTION MUTINEERS DECIMATED DEPORT FROM PARIS LONDON, Oct. 30 Troops jn Austria, forming garrisons at Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt, have taken part in a revolt against the Nazis, states tho French oflicial wireless. Those concerned in the revolt are Austrian troops who have returned after fighting in Poland. Tho Nazis aro reported to have quelled tho mutiny by shooting every tenth man. .

FIGHT WITH NAZIS CZECH DEMONSTRATORS CLASHES AT PRAGUE CASUALTIES AND ARRESTS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received October 30, 10.30 p.m.) >' LONDON, Oct, 30 It is reported that four people were killed, many injured and 800 arrested following clashes between Nazis and Czechs during the celebration of the 21st anniversary of the foundation of the Czech Republic, says a message from Prague. Shots were heard in several districts at night, the demonstrations/lasting until dawn. The German police placed a cordon around AVeuceslas Square to prevent demonstrations. However, they did not •prevent C zec hs, wearing their national colours and "Masaryk caps," breaking through the cordon and collecting in front of the Town Hall.

The police tried to tear off the insignias, their action resulting in frequent, fights between the Czech townspeople and Nazi Brown Shirts. The police, aided by Czech State police, finally dispersed the crowds. A message from Berlin says that quiet has been restored, in Bohemia.

AIR FORCE FIGHTERS .WESTERN FRONT SQUADRON KEENNESS OF THE PILOTS LONDON, Oct. 25 One of the journalists on the Western Front learned that the task of finding the Royal Air Force.Fighting Squadron ''somewhere in France" was•not the easiest job, and pelting rain did not enhance the pleasure of searching. "A guide," he said, "eventually landed us at the orderly room, and announced, that we wished to_ proceed to the squddron's dispersal point. With a smile, the quartermaster equipped us with oilskin coats and gumboots, and escorted us to the fighters—slim-fusel-aged, business-like machines, ready to roar across the sky at a minute's notice. '.'The commanding officer—a tall, tough, genial Australian —explained the machine's crowded instrument board, and demonstrated the ingenious sight-, ing apparatus and mechanism whereby the eight guns that each of these machines carry can be .fired simultaneously at the one target. ■ j "We discovered the personnel of the aeroplanes in a near by. unpretentious hut. All appeared to be in about the middle twenties —genial, healthy youngsters, engaged in reading, writing and talking.' and all dressed in their flying kit,, reajly and. waiting. " 'The boys are just dying to have a crack at them,', said their commanding officer. Later, when again looking over the aeroplane's sinister battery of guns, he said, 'They are grand war instruments, but how monstrous it is that . all this ishoujd be necessary.' ' "That ' seems a typical viewpoint among the British Air Force. They are' all very, keen, but I have not met one unthinking fire-eater among them." i Trim, grev-uniformed nurses in the B.E.F. sector are the only representatives of the women of Britain within the war zone; In a casualty clearing Etation 'in an old chateau they preside 'over wards in which there are no war casualties, but various cases of civilian ailments —influenza, appendicitis, fractures. Some tank drivers were injured in recen;b tank manoeuvres.