Prague, Mar. 16.
The dreaded Gestapo, Germany's much-feared secret police, has extended its ten= tacles'to Bohemia.
"We have ten thousand arrests to effect," the Gestapo chief announced here. today, this statement coinciding with the report that many people in Prague failed to return to their homes and were reported missing by their relatives.
Journalists were the first victims of the Gestapo, who seized, among others, M. Hajek, Chief of the Press Information Service under the Benes regime and a Czech correspondent for Reuters agency. No informa~ tion can be obtained regarding his fate.
Foreign correspondents have received instructions to obtain their news from the offices of the Reich Commissioner, which have. just been opened. On several occasions, foreign journ alists had their communications with outside countries cut by the Gestapo. Journalists were told to be more cautious Havas. tarian "guerilla forces" would pre-Judice Slovakia's position; tension between the Czech Army in the Car-pathic Ukraine and. the Ukrainian "Sich" or para-military organizations, constituted a danger to Slovakia; and, Slovakia's internal situation itself Justified such a move—Have Slovak Status Undecided
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