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Uamao amber 1939. Foreign-Hell announcements about the Protectorate. =d@ /-++ OESTERRICHER GRENZE: Havas: "An interrogation of Czech prisoners by the Gestapo had a witness in the person of a neutral journalist, who, thanks to certain complicities, could enter the famous Petschek Palace, the seat of the Gstapo, and there attend the economic martyrdom of the prisoners being heard. Here is the journalist's report: In the background of the dome hall, behind a large walnut desk, a young man of about 20 years emerges and approaches a young Czech prisoner, whom he slaps to the right and left without saying a word. Then he pushes him to the wall, where the prisoner, face to wall, has to live his arms vertically. He lets him stand like this and talks to us. He only interrupts when the prisoner's arms subside, in order to make it up again with a slap in his face or a snoop. After a certain time, the famous Stahlecker, the head of the Gestapo of Prague, enters. He, too, approaches the capture and begins the interrogation, which is interrupted by slaps, fists and mean insults of the Czech people. The interrogation ends, the immaculate young man must be led to the basement to the cell, where he has to wait for his transfer to the prison of Pankraz. In the basement, after a long passage at a lattice door, there is an SS post with Re- 2 volver in the hand, behind the latch there are about 20 pale unshaved young people in trousers and shirt. The prisoner is handed over to the master guard and we leave him. At the exit, I asked my guide what fate awaits this young man, whom we left behind in the basement. He answered me, "He will be beaten, just so much to die. If he then Glickhat& he will be released after l4 days. In any case, he will not remain in prison. Neither in prison nor in concentration camp is there room. Occasionally, during mass arrests on October 28, prisoners had to spend three days and three nights standing in the corridors of the Peshek prison. There was no other choice but to release the majority. Not all could be done. The names of those who were released, however, are not lost." LoNDoN: Reuter reports from Berlin at 7 p.m. that the right to stand was lifted in Prague. Furthermore, Reuter announces that on 26 November, English radio will broadcast in the morning hours in German, Czech, Italian and Polish. LoNDoN: According to Reuter, Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that all exportations of German origin were confiscated on the high seas, as a countermeasure against the German mine layings.