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Show Czechs Revolt, Report Asserts LONDON. Sept. 20 UP) The .British ministry ol information issued is-sued an official statement tonight saying it was "learned in authoritative authori-tative circles" that a revolutionary movement had broken out against Germany in the former Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak territory and was continuing continu-ing "with courage and determination" determina-tion" despite the execution of hundreds hun-dreds of persons. Th revolutionary movement was said in the announcement to have started in the protectorate ol Bohemia and Moravia with "considerable "con-siderable casualties" and to have spread to western Slovakia, where about 15,000 Slovak troops revolted and were disarmed. "The list of arrested runs to thousands and those executed into the hundreds," the ministry said. "Those who had no firearms tzed any weapon handy. Laborers' Labor-ers' wives at Prague used boards studded with nails." |