The Archive · 1938

Agents Taking Control

Paris, Oct. 17. re present Czech Government is practically in the hands of the German National-Socialists, leftist papers here claimed today. Age ants of the dreaded "Gestapo," the German Secret Police, are AiG to have spread through all the major Czech towns. Herr Hitler alleged lo have demanded the arrest and extradition of all De-ties anc! Senators in the Sudeten regions of Czechoslovakia who Sre not Nazis.

"An alarming report has reached us from Prague," says "poeuvie" today, "The Fuehrer is said to have demanded that py. Franz Chvalkovsky, the Czech Foreign Minister, ensures that non-Nazi Sudetens be handed over, including tens of thousands partisans of the Liberal Party, the members of trade unions or Synin democratic organizations, and all non-Nazi Sudeten De-puls:

jong the latter are all those who collaborated with Prague for past few weeks and notably those who rec M. Yvon, Delbos, then French Foreign Minister, when he visited Czecho-

Novakia last December, ovals, the Prague Govern completely in Herr Hitler's salt poper added. "They have tonto hin for ttle matters as well or more important things, and De Cnvaikovsky and. the Premier, Gen, Jan Sir vy, do not seem able 10 Gen ne yuchrer, whatever be his cit Re the. Gestapo have arrived deme numbers. In Prague, from Urtiyey spread to all the major hee i Caeehostovakia. Along the voar and other. communication na ape agents have been in-sled also Lo Populaire" confirmed the resonvat the arrival of Gestapo agents forgeue and other towns. idea {the claims made by be obtained from an free in Peuple" by M. Leon filha. Secretarg-Generat of the General Confederation of Labour.

Ruthenian Government Holds First Meeting Uzhorod, Slovakia, Oct, 16.

The Autonomous Government of Ruthenta (Subcarpathian Russia) hele their first Cabinet meeting yesterday, when they proceeded to the allotment of portfolios to the various statesmen. The Cabinet now includes the following:

Andre) Brody:—Premler, Education ndra} Brody:—Premler, Educatl eet eecnay era nae health Secretary: gerbe ne ROON wil now. tell and saw ju Pragu fair now has the unheard of pre~ teation of demanding the extradition all Germang and Austrians fleeing the' Nozi regime "for the' crime of high treason" which is equivalent to "death sentence. Only by 5 tuth the representatives. of thet fortunates can one understand their neral and material anguish and seen ni sao popu '2 Jurisdiction. Population within it

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