GERMAN REFUGEES
DEMAND FOR RETURN
WILL FACE CONCENTRATION r .|MP CZECHS UNABLE TO RESIST (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! Received Oct. 10, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 9. The Daily Telegraph’s Prague correspondent says that the latest German demand is that all Sudeten Germans, including Socialists and Communists. who left the annexed areas, shall be compelled to return as Germany does not renounce her claim to any Germans. The demand has caused consternation among the refugees, 90 per cent, of whom will face the concentration camp if they return. They protest that they were entitled to leave Sudetenland as the Munich agreement gave the right of the option of Czech nationality. Officials declare they are unable to resist the German demands. They had repeatedly but fruitlessly applied to England and France for advice. The Czechs, therefore, have ordered 5000 German emigres to depart on October 11, otherwise they will be extradited.
The Gestapo (secret police) have begun a purge of Sudetenland of “Marxist traitors and other enemies of the State.” Sudetenland will soon have its first concentration camp. The German news agency alleges that Czech troops shot two Sudetens who jumped out of a motor-car when it was halted by Are and hid in the fields at Gilschwitz.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 240, 11 October 1938, Page 7
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