Berlin, Oct. 3.
Mayor of Prague was sentenced to death yesterday, while 18 Czechs, most of them prominent, personages and high-ranking officers in the Czech Army, were executed Wednesday, Germans despatches from Prague said today.
Seventy-five others were sentenced by courts martial to be handed over to the state police, while three were acquitted, the Prague despatches reported, Ds, Ottokar Klapka, former mayor of Braguey'a puty' inthe Caseh Parliament "and" member sot the People's Socialist, Party before the German "occupation "of Caachosio: aki was fou of preparing Jercommi act of hugh Uearon and having aided and abgtiea the enemy.
German despatches, from. Pragus alleged. that among. those "executed Wednesday were lending ofclals ff the. Czech undercover organiza flog renting then germans Bohemia and Soravi sanlattion' who had boon gathering Members of a, Czech, ing. 0 fins to" use during an uprising, members of an' ierground party Plotting. high treason and members Bea ang of criminals who for years find: fterforized. the population also Wore "executed on Wednesday, the Nash despatches from Prague said-~ The newspaper printed. oficial DNB. despatches from Prague stat~ a ara Biccator oxen at "Rau:
Bet Teultural "Association ANG," Anton. Kvarda, Director of the Trades School at Rakonitz; Dr. Karl Welwarn "Distrie, Court; Joseph fectcrate has reached the highest Government spheres," the Berlin corpondent of, the "Neue Zurcher Zeltung™ reported to his paper today.
"The German press annowiced the sentence, without comments" jadded. "tt is believed that M. Ellas has little chance of escaping death for" clemency to, the Puhrer, Besides, sentences meted out by the tribunals in Bohemia and Mor-mediately. erals are under avia have all been carried. out imway, An investigation undertaken in Berlin has revealed that the sabotage of supplies 1s one of the mos:: mpor ant weapons of the opposition in the Protectorate, which tus to stir discontent among the population?"
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