The Archive · 1939

Comments of Dutch Press

Amsterdam, Nov. 18.

The Dutch press devoted several columns to reports on developments in Bohemia and Moravia today and commented on the latest demonstratigas- there as "a sign of an interesting process within the Third Reich."

"Repression in Prague has been extremely severe," the "Algemeen Handelsblad" reported, and added, as did other newspapers, that "the major pilon of the Czech population has put up extraordinary passive resistance against the Germans"

The Berlin correspondent of the "Algemeen Handelsblad" confirms on good authority that the total number of arrests effected in Prague exceeded 50.000, adding that all arrested students have been sent to the dreaded Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar where prisoners are subjected. to treatment as recently revealed in the British Government's White Paper.

The Prague correspondent of the "Telegraaf" reported that the city appears empty since all Czechs are compelled to remain indoors. "The measures of repression were effigially Gnhounced over the radio Vand publ in the papers," he added. "Furthermore, red posters bearing the proclamation of Baron Constantin von Neurath, the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, were pasted throughout Prague. It is not known so far if Czech university professors were amongst those executed. It is expected that a list of the dead will be released shortly by the German Brussels, Nov. 18. "There have been flights by bel.

t planes over our territory in cerned,"

Reuter.

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