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Show AUSTRIA BEGS COAL FROM BOHEMIA AND GIVES HUNS ARMS WASH 1 XGTON. Dec. 2?,. Charles Pergler, diplomatic representative here df Bohemia, made public today a statement state-ment from the Czecho-SIovak government, govern-ment, charging, that at the very moment Vienna was begging for and receiving coal from Bohemia the Austrian government govern-ment was furnishing arms to hostile Germans Ger-mans in Bohemia. "The accusation that we failed to furnish fur-nish Vienna with coal Is designed to compromise us In the eyes of the entente." en-tente." says the statement, "but the government gov-ernment making the charge is also urging the Germans to occupy the coal mines at Dux and Teplitz in order to prevent- us from using the mines and to create difficulties. diffi-culties. The German propaganda against us is the familiar one of falsehood. "The Magyar attitude does not differ from that of the Germans. In Slovakia they committed terrible atrocities. Hut on December 3 the allies ordered them immediately to evacuate Slovakia." |