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60r - 6 - defend encircled. SS-people in field uniforms penetrated into the homes. Threatened with revolvers and automatic weapons, the students were dragged out of the beds on Géetapo trucks. No one was allowed time to wear clothes. The majority was only in shirts and trousers. Among the students were several Yugoslavs and Bulgarians who protested unsuccessfully. A reaction of the masses terrifiedly barricaded the SS people in the homes and set up machine guns in the windows and on the roofs. At noon, armed troops invaded the amphitheater xxt of the medical faculty, the Labo ratorien of technical colleges and the Agronomic Institute, and arrested all students and professors. In the afternoon, the transports of prisoners, escorted by Gestapo, began to the Reich border. According to the news that some students have managed to smuggle through their relatives, they are all taken to the Buchenwalde concentration camp near Weimar, which is a Czech concentration camp. In parallel to this cleansing campaign against the students, the Germans are undertaking a cleansing campaign in the ranks of the Czech patriotic organizations, especially among the members of the Sokol. Klinger, Niemcek and Blaha were also transported to Buchenwalde. On the other hand, the Germans seized the opportunity to get rid of certain politicians who had a certain authority, e.g. General Nejtek, who was responsible for the liquidation of the Czech Ministry of Defence and who in this way had information that seemed dangerous to the Deutscha. The number of arrests in Bohemia and Moravia is estimated according to the l7.ll.5o.ooo. The Germans indicate that new repression measures should be taken to counter any danger of new unrest. Since the closing of the Czech University all German administrative buildings of SS in field equipment are guarded with machinan rifles. Motorized units with armored cars cross in the streets of Prague to prove to the people that any attempt to revolt would be futile." English Radio News, l8.ll.39 Daventry, lo watch : Aix In Prague the official announcement was made yesterday,9 Czech students were shot and 1.2oo arrested and taken away in buses. The Czech universities were closed to 3 years. These measures were, it is said, taken as a result of acts of resistance which the Czech students were to be indebted to. German official authorities further stated that these measures were absolutely necessary, since Germany was in war. It is impossible for Czech people to be stirred up by a few hotheads. The riots began on October 28th on the Czech National Day. åm l5.ll.demonstrated 2oo Czech students at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, singing the Czech national anthem and shouting "preciousness". In the alleys of rags were distributed further flyers in which the Germans were forced to disappear before Stalin came.The German press did not talk about the shooting in Prague, but the "Deutsche Allge- meine Zeitung" reports that martial law had been proclaimed in Bohemia and Moravia.