Paris Hears of Sequel to Long Series of Arrests Paris, Nov. 18.
The numerous arrests made daily in Austria in connection with the Munich bomb explosion are behind the assassination on Thursday of a high official of the Vienna police, according to the Belgrade correspondent of the Matin, The murderer is believed by the Gestapo (German Secret Police) to have fled in the direction of the Yugoslav frontier, which was sealed all day yesterday. The Vienna-Trieste express was detained for several hours while all passengers were closely examined.—Reuter, The German authorities then decided on swift, merciless repression. Believing that the students and intellectual leaders were leaders of the underground movement, they organized lightning raids against all centres of student life. dawn yesterday, motorized detachments of the German State Police were called out urgently from ihe Reich. Upon arrival, they surrounded the Sveilla and Mazaryk Universities while Nazis armed to (Continued on page 8, col. 4)
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