HEYDRICH BADLY INJURED

Southland Times, Issue 24758, 1 June 1942, Page 5

HEYDRICH BADLY INJURED

Reward Doubled By Germans (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Prague radio announced that the Government is offering a reward of £65,000 for the discovery of Reinhard Heydrich’s assailants. This is additional to a similar reward offered by the German authorities. The Czech puppet President, Dr Emil Hacha, broadcasting, blamed Dr Eduard Benes, head of the Czech Government in London, for the attack, which, he claimed, was planned by a group of Czechs in London. The Evening Standard’s correspondent on the German frontier says well-informed quarters in the Protectorate think members of the Nazi Party fired the shots at Heydrich because of resentment over his position in the party, which, it is believed, was a spy on behalf of the German General Staff. In addition to three bullets which injured his spine, Heydrich received a bullet in the throat and another in the back, while a bomb which wrecked his car gave him abdominal injuries. He now has had two blood transfusions. Prague radio announced that four more persons had been executed for sheltering unregistered persons and participating in activities against the State. Five women were among 12 Czechs sentenced to death at Brno. GERMANS THREATENED A new wave of terrorism against Germans in Czechoslovakia is threatened in leaflets circulated in Prague and other places, says The Daily Express correspondent on the German frontier. One leaflet read: “To the hysterical bloodbath of fascists, we Czechs will answer, with another wave of terrorism. Down with the fascist murderers of the Czech people.” The day before the shooting of Hey- I drich several violent explosions oc- I curred at the Skoda works, causing considerable damage. The workers are j slowing down production. Guerrillas derailed a train carrying war supplies near Kladno. An unconfirmed report from Berne states that Heydrich is dead. The Evening Standard says that Hitler’s physician, Professor Sauerbruch, went to Prague and removed the bullets from Heydrich. The bullets had injured his spinal cord. Herr Heinrich Himmler, the German police chief, and 20 high Gestapo officials have been sent by air from Berlin to Prague to conduct investigations into the shooting of Heydrich. The investigations began with mass arrests of public leaders, including a purge of university professors and many high officials of the Hacha Government. Two hundred hostages have been selected to die in case the real culprits are never found. The Prague radio says that among those executed were an attorney of Brno, a former lieutenant-colonel in the Czechoslovak Army and his wife and daughter, a doctor and his wife and a number of district officials. The majority lived in the street where the at--1 tempt on Heydrich occurred. Some of them were charged “with having publicly approved the attempt.” The radio appealed to an unknown woman who [ helped the police on the spot after the attempted assassination to come forward 1 and “be thanked.” It added that a 1 state policeman and the driver of a cart who helped were given 10,000 crowns ’ reward. bomb explodes in PARIS CAFE

(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) VICHY, May 31. A bomb in a suitcase left in a cloakroom in a Paris cafe killed a judiciary official and a waiter when it exploded. The prefecture of police occupies the same building.