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From a Czech source Reuter’s Agency has received further details about the important Congress of Czech deputies from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia which took place in Prague on the 5th inst.

The meeting was opened by the President of the Bohemian Union, Mr. Stanek, who welcomed those Czech deputies who had come out of prison, and pointed out that the Czechs, being unable to speak freely in the Reichsrath, the existence of which still depended on Austrian absolutism, had assembled in order to make the whole world know that the Czechoslovak Nation, who had suffered such great sacrifices during the war, demanded not mere autonomy, but an independent state of their own, according to the right of self-determination.

Deputy Tusar (Czech Socialist), the Secretary of the Czech Executive Committee, then read the resolution, the whole of which has been suppressed by the Censor. The resolution was carried unanimously amid the singing of the