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Show SLOVAK CROWD IS TARGET FOR POLICEjHOTS Armed Truce Prevailing After Fighting on Hungary Border .BUDAPEST, Jan. T (AP) Gunfire burst forth on another sector of the Hungarian-Czechoslovak frontier today as Hungarians Hun-garians were checking up on yesterday'i artillery, tank and machine gun battle at Munkaci, in which they reported 47 killed. Tha aaw Incident aeeurrad at tha villas at Komerom-Caehl, whara Hungarian gendarmes fired five shots and wounded three parsons la a crowd of Slovak sympathisers. Authorities said tha shooting took place as tha officers attempted to make aa arrest and were assaulted by aa axoltad crowd of 1H armed with sticks and stones. Hungarians aald 40 Caecho-Slo-vaka and aavea Hungarians wan killed at Munkacs yesterday. The Hungarian dead Include! one officer hit by a shell fragmant at tha Hotel Osillag la Munkaos, the town ceded to Hungary by Cseebe-Slovakia Cseebe-Slovakia at tha November 1 Vienna arbitration award af Italy aad Car-many. Car-many. Tha official Hungarian report added that 300 houaea In Munkaea. canter of yesterdays battle, were damaged by Cseche-Slovak ah entire. en-tire. When the Cseeho-Slovak forces retreated, Hungarians declared, they took hostagea with them from the Hungarian village af Oroetveg, which they occupied for a few hours. Thousands of Hungarian troops, meanwhile, were moved up to the sons of yesterday's sporadic boa-tllltles. boa-tllltles. The truce waa arranged after a day af fighting and tha quarrel waa turned over last Bight to political po-litical leaders of the two countries Cseeho-Slovak artillery, however, still covered Munkacs, a city af (CeaUniMS n Fes Twal . (Column One I ARMED TRUCE j HALTSJATTLE (Cestlauad Frew F OMI 0 000 which was ceded to Hungary recently In the territorial revision resulting from tha Munich agreement agree-ment (The Prague newspaper Narodnl Oevoboeent, reported Polish troops were massing along the northern , border af Csecho-8lovakla. Several Infantry regiments, a cavalry regiment regi-ment and a machine gun detachment detach-ment already had occupied border posts, the paper said, and additional forces were expected this week ) Residents of Munkaca war ap- Erehenaive tha bombardment might resumed. Crowds demanding revenge were dispersed In several Hungarian town. |