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0 Excerpt from transcript. Group Cultural Political Affairs - Strictly confidential ! radio and light service . For personal use only! Test No. 48 / II / 40. To be destroyed on its own responsibility. (§ 353 c RSTGB). Extracts from the reports of 7 September 1940. Sender London (Czech): ....... News comes from the Protectorate, according to which numerous new arrests were made. In Prague in the last few days, 150 people were arrested, in the countryside 5oo. The arrested are mostly supporters of Benesch and members of the Socialist Party. They are accused of having hidden weapons and distributed German flight tickets. - In many cases, the straw men employed by Germans in the factories, the so-called trusters, have not fulfilled their task to the satisfaction of the empire. Since most of them assumed that their office would not last long, they did their best to fill their pockets as quickly and as abundantly as possible. In the Protectorate, over loo trustees were now being charged for fraud. - The following is a "quarter-hour programme dedicated to the railway workers": (Content: Phrases about the historical development of the railway unions.. they must not forget their socialistic task even today... we know that you must do your duties with resistance and inner abhorrence, but only under terror.. Loo ooo Railway workers in the occupied territories feel just as much as you do, they also hope, at the moment of liberation, as they will be allowed to serve their own people again. The railway workers have the best feeling for international cooperation of all peoples. Europe will be freed and also Mr. Neurath and his "GestapaciA (Gestapo helpers) will have to leave your country once .. also the iron railwaymen will need to cooperate in the reconstruction of Europe.. the Nazis leave behind themselves debris, bad rails and bad wagons, all their crimes against the traffic being you will once again