The Archive · 1939

Top Speed on Contracts

Prague, Mar. 3.

Arms and munitions wil not be allowed, to. leave Czechoslovakia for the Soviet after May 1, according to reliable information.

Czechoslovakia is at present sending supplies to the Soviet under contracts concluded prior to last September. Armaments factories are working at great pressure day and night, and even on Sundays, to fill the contracts as completely as possible.—Reuter Schuschnigg May Not Be Prosecuted Vienna, Mar. 2. The German authorities have decided to give up their case against Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria before the Anschluss of mid-March, 1938. Within a few days he will leave the Hotel Metropole, where he has been kept in custody, and will retire to a small town in Upper Austria, it was stated. Since February 27 he has been allowed to receive his wife. Dr. von Schuschnigg was previously reported to be facing charges of having been responsible for the execution of the Nazis who attempted the unsuccessful July, 1934, putsch.—Havas.

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