Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-05-27 | Page 1 | Reprisals Loom

1 Reprisals Loom I 4 k 4 REINHARD HEYDRICH Gestapo's No 2 Man Ian Nazi Protector For Bohemia R Reported Report d Shot LONDON M May y 2 27 M The P-The The German German-co German controlled Prague radio announced Wednesday that Reinhard Reinhard Rein Rein- hard Heydrich reich's protector for Bohemia and Moravia had been wounded in a murderous att attack attack at at- t tack ck and threatened terrible terrible re re re- A state of emergency was said to have been declared over the entire na nazi gripped fragment of Slovakia Czecho and an announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment said Whoever hopes to hide the guilty persons or who gives them any kind of help or security or secretly withholds any knowledge of the crime will be executed Reprisals ls Feared A Czech government source here expressed fear that the wounding of Heydrich No No- 2 man of ot the German gestapo would let down the bars for a wave of executions in which Czechs would be slaughtered slaughtered slaughtered by hundreds in mass exe executions xe- xe of innocent people on a ascale ascale ascale scale unprecedented unprecedented even even in this war It was understood here that the shooting occurred in Prague where Heydrich announced Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night according to a German Gennan broadcast that there here would be a reorganization of the administrative tive set setup Czech circles here interpreted this as JJ meaning that Hitler had decided to incorporate Bohemia and Moravia outright into the reich One Czech source expressed the belief that Heydrich had been sh shot t tin in protest against his order conscripting con con- scripting Czech youths foi for or s irvi e In Hitler's army Rus in ln ia f Heydrich chief aide to Heinrich Himmler gestapo chief has been reported recently visiting Paris and the to take charge of measure to put down revolt v Uses Ulles Heavy Fist It was on such an assignment that he went to Bohemia and Moravia Moravia Moravia Mo Mo- ravia in September 1941 He moved in as acting protector and applied heavy fisted measure which he announced a month later had crushed all unrest in the pro pro- pro pro-