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Meanwhile, Sudetens who had fled to Germany and organized a Freikorps ("Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens in this salient proudly pinched themselves off. They issued proclamations defying Prague, warned that Nazi vengeance will be taken later on every Sudeten who "as a traitor puts on the uniform of Stalin and Syrovy."
In scores of border clashes Czechs and Sudetens were killed, but there were no charges that anyone in German Army uniform joined the fray up to this week.