CZECH BORDER ARRESTS
GERMANS ON SPY CHARGES PRAGUE, July, 10. The arrest of three Germans on -the frontier on suspicion of espionage has !ed to the discovery of a widespread Nazi terrorist organisation in Czechoslovakia. In addition to the three Germans, two Czechoslovak subjects of German race have been arrested as fellow conspirators* It is stated by the police that the nen possessed large sums of money which, they admit, were for propaganda and political corruption. In addition they had false passports and letters written in cipher which has, so far, defied all the Czech cipher experts. Th men also carried anus, and one of them had a high explosive formula.
According ( 0 further police statements the men had instructions to organise the destruction of bridges and the blowing up of roads and munition works in the event of war.
Their particular task seems to have been to organise terrorist groups. These would cut the connections between Eohemia and Czechoslovakia it* war were to break out, so as to prevent any possibility of Russian itoons from (he East taking part i;s this protection of the Czechoslovak frontier with Germany.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 12
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