STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2532, sig. 109-12/179 (damaged)

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The Slovak Neisende, who want to go to Prague, have to drive over Vienna." The agency Havas further informs: Rei-sende, who come from Bohemia, report new details about the Prague riots. According to their statements, the number of Fü- silierungen should be 120. On the night of 16th to 17th and on 17th. Almost 8000 Czech students and professors had been arrested on November 15, and the arrested had to a large extent been deported to Germany. The nine fusilid students had not been selected for the vote=; these nine students had participated in the rallies of November 15. They were the presidents of all student associations. Among them was the son of the former Minister of Commerce Matusek. The siege was maintained. Prague, 21 Nov. (United Pres.) As it is announced, in those areas of the Protectorate in which the right to stand was imposed, crimes of rebellion, murder and resistance to state authority, as well as malicious damage to foreign property are brought before a special court, which can only impose the death penalty upon the guilty. The Special Courts are composed of three Czech judges, each of whom, as a result of the country's amended statute, no longer have the power to give military service. Various Tscech organizations, such as the Sokolgemeinde, the trade association of employees and others, have called on their members to avoid disciplining themselves to strike. Prague, 22 Nov. (DNB.) The military court=ability in Prague and the surrounding area has been lifted in view of the complete calm that prevails in Prague. No incident has occurred and the Czech population quietly pursues its occupation. Copenhagen, 22 Nov. (Exchange.) According to reports from Berlin arriving in Copenhagen, Sitler ordered the Reichsprotector of Neurath and Karl Hermann Frank, the head of the Gestapo in Czechoslovakia and Asftsten Neurath, to report on the unrest in the Protectorate in Berlia.