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Show Field Guns Reported Used Against Czechs LONDON, Nov. 20 (UP) The Daily Herald today reported In a dispatch from Zagreb, Jugoslavia, that German troops had been forced to fire artillery Into workers' work-ers' quarters to subdue last week's Czech uprising at Prague, and that attempts had' been made Friday to assassinate Dr. Emll Hacha. president of the Bohemia-Moravia protectorate. Although the Germans had announced an-nounced the execution of 13 ringleaders ring-leaders of the uprising, the Daily Herald dispatch said nazi police and storm troopers killed or wounded 30 studenU when they I stormed the Czech university, and that after they captured It, they lined 18 students against classroom class-room walls and shot them, leaving their bodies propped against the walls for 24 hours as a warning. The newspaper's Zagreb correspondent corres-pondent said he got his information from an unnamed foreign commercial com-mercial attache, who had Just left Prague. He told of two days of furioous fighting during which Czech students barricaded their university and fought off German Ger-man secret police and storm troop- Continued cm Pun Two) ICxWMa Fln 7 ARTILLERY USED AGAIIISTJZECHS (Csstan t trm rm Oss) en for hours by showering them with desks, busts of Adolf Hitler and other missies from windows. The informant said the trouble started last week when students broke up the lecture of a new nasi professor because he Insulted them. They pelted him with books and fled. The students then barricaded the university against the Gestapo men who arrived In three buses. "The rebel students were given until afternoon to pull down the Czech national flag and surrender," surrend-er," the Informant sal. They refused re-fused and two armored cars arrived ar-rived and took up stations In front of the building, pushing their way through a booing crowd. -Magnificent hat Crasy" "It was magnificent but crazy. They tumbled down desks and cupboards onto the attackers, and then the machine guns of the armored arm-ored cars spurted Into action. "It took the eteel-helmeted nazls two hours to take the building. Students fought from floor to floor and about 30 were killed or wounded before they were overpowered over-powered and their flag torn down. The armored cars then had to break up angry crowds who dragged drag-ged tl n r-1 "")"" killed him. "Demonstrations soon began all over the city. As soon as the gestapo broke up one group another an-other formed. Czech police refused re-fused to act against their people and were disarmed. Five police officers were shot In Prague alone. "The next day a regiment of Austrians arrived from Linz and occupied znaui positions of the city." Cm Artillery "In Prague, later In the day, the crash of shells drowned out the machine gun fire," he said. The Germans used light field guns to drive the rebels from narrow nar-row streets In the working class quarters. Snipers seemed everywhere every-where and military ambulances clanged to crowded hospitals. Those with arms were packed Into lorries and taken to emergency emer-gency gestapo centers where they Just disappeared. . "Friday the only shots were those fired by young workmen at Hacha, who is probably the most unpopular man In . Prague today. Hacha was not Injured but two of his gestapo bodyguards were hit" |