NAZI TERROR
ANOTHER WAVE OF ARRESTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA VICTIMS THROWN INTO ANCIENT DUNGEONS. MURDERS BY THE GESTAPO REPORTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 3. A new wave of arrests lias swept over Czechoslovakia, says the Belgrade correspondent of “The Times.’’ Victims are army officers, including four generals, members of the Government “troops,” also the office staff at the Skoda works and journalists. The arrest of Government troopers is the result of infiltration in the ranks by German spies. The entire foreign correspondence staff at Skoda has been taken into custody. The Gestapo raided the headquarters of the illegal newspaper "To Arms,” and is believed to have killed a number of editorial writers. Prague prisons aie full. Dungeons which were formerly exhibited as examples of medieval barbarism are again employed. The process of Germanisation is being expedited. Villages are evacuated for German colonisation. All educational establishments are closed. Quantities of food.are being transferred to Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 5
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