Leaving letters to relatives saying “there is no future for German-speaking people in Czechoslovakia,” Dr. Rudolf Thomas, Jewish editor-in-chief of the prager Tagblatt and his wife took an overdose of a sleeping potion in Praha, which was expected to have fatal results, it was reported here today.
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