English Translation

10l - 2 - Paris, Havas: The Tachecho-Slovak press agency announces that several days before the demonstrations of the Czech people were sent to Prague by the German authorities and to the larger cities of Böhmene and Moravian troops and SS departments. Prominence in German and Czech languages prohibited all celebrations of 28 October and announced severe penalties for all sabotage acts. The majority of these announcements were torn down, On 28 October the Tachechian population manifested in mourning clothes on Wenceslas Square. A few hundred people were arrested for demonstrating against police officers and soldiers, the men wearing similar hats, like those of the Prieident liberator Masaryk. On behalf of the Gestapo, German soldiers seized a Czech manifesto on the Malá Streána and shot him in the presence of the crowd. In the centre of Prague, women approached the corpses of the Czechs killed in the street and knelt down before him. Young soldiers and SS-lanners did not dare to prevent them, as they were moved by these acts of Pietlit. The exact number of killed and injured is not known, as it was not published by the German authorities. Numerous personalities were arrested, among them numerous journalists who belonged to the former agricultural, sociologistic, even fascist party, often this was the only reason. The families do not pay 2o crowns per day for the maintenance of the liability.PPersons who read leaflets without delivering them to the authorities are sentenced to 6-9 Honaten prison. DiB, Amsterdam's London correspondent of the "Hed Vold" : It had been noted that in a British reply to the embassy Queen Wilhelmine and King Leopolde only Czecho-Slovakia and Poland had been designated as countries which were supposed to find a desolation for wrongdoing, while Lebrun's answer in this connection also referred to Austria. Correspondent says that there was no information about this in London's official circles.