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123 - 23 - are far greater than the DNB's admittance to executions. Almost 8ooo Czech students and professors are said to have been arrested on the night of November 17th and on the day of November 7th. The arrests were made not only in the student homes, but also in private homes. The number of prisoners was deported to Germany. Nine students were shot by the SS after the raid on the evening of the 17th. They were not randomly selected among the manifestos of November 5th. Rather, they were simply the student of all student associations called Matousek the son of the former Minister of Commerce. In Prague there are no more students. The Gestapo even cleared the clinics and hospitals, where hundreds of wounded, mostly students, were treated for their injuries on 28 October and 15 November. Families are left in a terrible uncertainty and without news of their own. The state of siege is maintained and Prague is occupied by 20.oð0 Sa and SS leaders in full armament." Bucharest, Reuter: "As a result of the closure of all high schools in Bohemia and Moravia, a secret call is distributed in all youth hostels of the Protectorate. The Prague students who wrote this call were among the demonstrators who were attacked and driven apart by the German police. The call says: "Our universities were closed for three years to strangle the Czech youth and take away from it any possibility of development. Our breaking up is to be Czech. After the occupation in March, we searched for the source of our culture in the history of our nation. As a result, the textbooks were taken away from us and replaced by other books written in the same language but in the German spirit. Instead of the promised cultural autonomy, we have felt the Prussian boot that tramples on our Czech ideas and national feelings. Now our universities are closed, in which loo0 years the civilization of the East and the West met, and Prague is degraded to a provincial city." - To the incidents says the call: "We went through the streets to show that we remained the same as before. For several days blood was poured in Prague. Thousands must now rot in prisons and concentration camps. This was the first German answer. Now comes the closing of the universities forced labor for us. The youth of Bohemia and Moravia will continue to fight." .... As punishment for the unrest of the last week, Hacha has been grounded for 5 days. He delivered the radio speech from his room, where he was held."