USE IN LABOUR CAMPS
“Unreliable And Hostile” Czech Elements Many Thousands Arrested United Press—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. VIENNA, Nov. 7. Western diplomats said that the Czech Ministry of the Interior issued a confidential order to all regional offices of ,the political police last month requesting the arrest of 50,000 “ unreliable and hostile elements.” They were to be used in labour camps, according to the order. The move is believed to have been prompted by complaints from Moscow that Czech heavy industry and uranium production had been neglected. About 10,000 people, one-quarter of them women, are said to have been arrested already. Over 8000 are reported to be working in the Jackymov mines.
In Prague, the Czech Defence Minister, General Ludvik Svorboda, announced that the Government had decided to release soldiers from the army after five months’ training instead of two years if they agreed to become coalminers for five years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27232, 8 November 1949, Page 7
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