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Rh and with Czech organisations in America, which conducted anti-Austrian propaganda. Police raids were ordered on the Živnostenská Banka (Trade Bank) and the "Bohemia" Bank, presided over by Dr Scheiner. The manager of the Živnostenská Banka, Mr Preiss, was imprisoned, with his four colleagues, being suspected of relations with Dr Kramář..

Fully three-quarters of the Czech journals and all Slovak journals in Hungary have been stopped. Those which are still being published in Bohemia and Moravia are filled with news supplied by the Official Press Bureau, which they are forced by the police to publish.

The newspapers of the Radical parties (the party for the independence of Bohemia, the National Socialist and the Progressive parties) were entirely suppressed during the first months of the war. The majority of the editors are in prison.

Samostatnost (Independence), the journal of the Independence Party, was the first to be suspended. The editors were either imprisoned or sent to the front.

České Slovo (Czech Word), the journal of the National Socialist Party, was suppressed next. The editors began to publish a new journal entitled Naše Slovo (Our Word), which was also soon suppressed. The majority of the editors are in prison (Deputies Klofáč, Choc, Špatný, Skorkovský, and others).