Only 18,000 people took part in the manifestations of the Slova'e people's Party at Bratislava and not 80,000 as announced by the Party itself, the semi-oficial Coteka news agency declared today.
"During the meeting, a demonstra tion was to have been held before the National Slovak Theatre and a manifesto addressed to the Slovak Feople was to have been read," the statement added. "At the last minute. the leaders of the Party decided abandon their plan because of the Poor attendance. Inslesd, foreign ress correspondents were invited to visit, Mgr. Hlinka" (leader of the Party) who made several statements in favour of autonomy."—Havas,
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