The Czech authorities today permitted the transfer of a group of Jewish refugees, trapped in the Czech-German no man’s land near Lundenburg, to barracks south of-Brno. Forbidden to leave the barracks, the refugees are being supplied with food by the Brno Jewish Community. (The group was one of several caught in unassigned areas between Czechoslovakia and the Sudeten areas occupied by the German troops.)
The Municipal Council has rejected a motion by the Czech Fascist Party to establish a commission for the protection of the “czecharyan character of the city.”
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