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drivembirger AeM 20. 11. 39. State of siege over Prague and several other villages imposed. A statement Masaryk. Prague, 18. Nov. (DNB.) State President London, 18th Nov.(Reuter.) Jan MasaryK, Hacha turned this afternoon to the population via former Czech ambassador in Lon- the radio. He said in an interview: "For him it was clear that in the last days of the Ereig moment there was no great revolt against nits which had caused the Nazi aggression on 16 March; it would be prematurely declared by the leader quo serious and stupid. Time is not yet ripe, but I believe that the time will come later endangered. Literally Hacha then expounded: will. Finally, Hitler and Nazis will "The Czech population has disappeared until now. At present, the exemplary actions are pursuing a systematic plan to prove to me that the Czech Bolk is denationalizing its people and ruining their economic position in the midst of today's events, as they do with all those historical significance. Un- of which they think they are not happy, the population has been able to help for themselves. They will not succeed in small irresponsible groups." Masarnk added that from extremely pitiful deeds, certain secret sources can be found out. These deluded elements are moderately new about the movements in under the influence of the hostile propa- lic of Czechoslovakia and the German be=ganda and the agitation of the refugees, oppression. There was an increased closure to which we strictly forbid any interference in the Czech schools and the compulsory use of the Czech affairs of German language in those who still have to be opened. The Czech people remained in the. Concerning the Prefidential Hacha habitat of the empire incorporated and the former ambassador declared: "I have to draw the consequences from it. It is self-experienced that he lives in the village, where it is understandable that the German people lived with all my baters and that he inhabits precisely the means the indecent conditions at home in which my father lived must create his victory. It disposes of and died. He regrets him, for he spared the means necessary for this purpose any real prisoner in the Brotek. The war situation spared territory of the torat, deffen Bräfidentschaft he took over the Greek people. In the counter-sat has and that in my opinion rightly to the habits of the former Dester- as the largest concentration camp of Hitler rich the Czech Bolk jett cannot be described in." To the execution led the fight. It can quietly his 9 Czech students explained Masarnk: Peace works continue and is in different= "It is too terrible". He made it clear that in a better situation, since the Berbot of the commemorations on the 28th than the people of certain neutral states came up." October, a bad mood arose, Prefident Hacha then addressed to the Be= who had followed in various parts of the country the exhortation of every client-insignificant unrest. "If the moment comes could disturb the Brotektorate, the refute of the Nazis will have devastating consequences for the destruction of the Nazi regime, and for the people themselves. "It is unnecessarily, so Hacha concluded, "to make further sacrifices. The population must not be blinded.