GERMANS MURDERED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 71, 26 March 1940, Page 5

GERMANS MURDERED

TWO FRONTIER GUARDS AND GESTAPO AGENT RADIO APPEALS TO CZECHS TO FIND ASSASSINS. I . PRAGUE, March 24. The radio has revealed that two I German frontier guards were found murdered on the former Austrian frontier on March 22 and also a Gestapo (Nazi secret police) agent on ths Bohemian - German border on | March 20. The announcer broadcast a Government appeal to the Czechs as a | national duty to help find the assassins. | 1 REPRISALS NOT EXPECTED MOKE CONCILIATORY ATTITUDE TO CZECHS } Received March 25, 9.30 p.m. BERLIN, March 24. It is not expected that the German Government will exact reprisals foi the murders reported from Prague. Those in autthority say that the Czech Government regards the murders as an isolated incident for which the Czech people cannot be held r-.-I sponsible. The news was reported to have aroused .cars among the population, but t! e authorities have recently adopted a more conciliatory attitude towards them, hoping to end the passive resistance which has recently sprung up in Bohemia. The newspapers contain an appeal for volunteers aged 17 and upwards for the Air Force, also for the manufacture of naval armaments.