STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43 Page 18 · 18 of 329
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43
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18. Noven59. If...aN Strictly confidential ! Group In your own responsibility immediately to destroy ! Bulluvpofilifsche Affairs English radio news. 17 stations : Daventry . Broadcast time: l0 Whr. Language : English. Reception - Very disturbed. From Germany, "directions about inconsistencies in the leading circles and about indissistency that occur in the territories occupied by Germany. Yesterday in Prague, as officially be-announced, 9 Czech students were shot and arrested, and 1200 were taken away in buses. The technical universities were closed to 3 years. These measures were, it is said, taken as a result of Viderstandsakte, which the Czech students could be indebted to. German local authorities further stated that these measures were absolutely necessary, since Germany was in war. It was impossible to have the techechic people stirred up by a few hot fights. The riots began on October 28th , on the Czech National Day. On November 15th, 200 Czech students demonstrated at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where they sang the Czech national anthem and shouted "preciousness". In the streets of Prague further flyers were distributed,in which uep Germans were advised to disappear, hevor Stalin came . The German press does not comment on the shootings in Prague, but the "Deutsche allgemeine Zeitung" reports that the war speech was proclaimed in Böhnen and Moravia. This morning the telephone connection between Preg and Berlin was interrupted. The "Volkische Beobachter" (Volkischer Beobachter) brings a note that the Czech President Hächa had fallen ill./The rest of the report was almost completely unresolvable because of Eusserst violent disturbances, but @s vurde indicated that the president's illness was of a political nature.