SLOVAK RIOTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 7

SLOVAK RIOTING

TEAR GAS USED POLICE WITH BAYONETS BOMB EXPLOSIONS SIX PEOPLE KILLED MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS (Fine. Tel. Copyright——United Tress Assn.) (Reed. March 14, 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. A message from .Bratislava states that rioting broke out during the mass meeting called to hear speeches by M. Mach and M. Tuca. The police charged with bayonets and used tear gas. Late to-night three bomb explosions killed six persons. One damaged a house and also killed an adult child near the Danube bridge. The second wrecked a German-own-ed factory, killing four .people. The third exploded without casualties near the town hall. The Bratislava correspondent of The Times quotes unconfirmed reports of the concentration at Energau, opposite Bratislava, of German troops and Storm Troopers equipped with anti-tank guns and light artillery and also three divisions of Czech troops near Bratislava.

The Munich correspondent of The Times says that increased troop movements on the main highways have been noticeable in recent weeks and have been intensified during the last two or three days. Long columns of army lorries filled with soldiers have been travelling towards Salzburg, mainly at night-time. Travellers in the Leipzig, Breslau, Munich and Salzburg regions claim to have met large detachments of troops in active service dress, but in the neighbourhood of Vienna, concentrations are to be expected in the event of trouble during the anschluss celebrations.