The German reactionary press has come out with a furious attack upon the “coal king” of Czechoslovakia, Ignatz Petscheck, a Jew, who owns all the Bohemian browncoal mines, for having recently bought up the “Ostelbien” mines located in Germany near the Czech border.
The German reactionaries say that Petscheck bought these mines at the order of the Czech government in order to help free the last part of Germany which Czechoslovakia claims should belong to it, namely the Lausitz district.
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