"Reception Committee"
Bucharest, Dec. 5.
The story of a hoax played on the German Military Reception Committee at Prague is amusing the Czechs, it is reported here, It is stated that a number of persons in German uniforms, posing as the Committee, arrived at the Janecek arms factory at Pankraz, a suburb of Prague, to receive a large consignment of rifles. They are said to have presented an authorization and to have removed the rifles in lorries. Half an hour later, the real Committee is reported to have appeared at the factory, German military authorities and the Gestapo (German secret police) are said to be investigating the incident.—Reuter,
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