the morning of 21 September. The order further specified that the was to take no regard to any aversion to the armed assaults that it had previously encountered from some ethnic German civilians. Moreover, each group was ordered to establish its own intelligence staff that would be providing information to the center in Selb. In line with the order, attacks increased both in their frequency as well as brutality. 21 September 1938 22 September 1938 On the night of 21 September 1938, German radio broadcast false information that Czechoslovakia agreed to cede its border areas to Germany. Next day, most ethnic German majority towns were full of German Nazi flags and Hitler portraits, while and ethnic German mobs unleashed a wave of attacks against state authorities and non-German civilians. On 22 September, Adolf Hitler gave orders to provide the with German weaponry, ammunition and equipment (until that moment, were to be armed only with weapons that Germany obtained with the of Austria). Czechoslovak forces' order not to use firearms except in self-defense was called off during the day. By 24 September 1938, conducted over 300 raids against Czechoslovak authorities. 23 September 1938 Hitler gave new orders under which captured Czechs were to be considered and treated as prisoners of war. Captives that could prove Slovak or Hungarian nationality were to be regarded as refugees to Germany. By 11 am, the Czechoslovak government officially declared that it was unable to exercise Czechoslovak authority in two border districts (Osoblaha and Jindřichov). State officials from these regions were ordered to retreat towards a new line of defense manned by the army. In other areas the Czechoslovak army started offensive actions which led to recapturing of areas in and around Varnsdorf, from which SDG squads retreated in the previous days. At 11:30 pm, Czechoslovakia declared full army mobilization as well as full stationing of Czechoslovak border fortifications. 24 September 1938 leadership gave out an order that fighting units must compel ethnic German mayors of Czechoslovak border towns to send telegraphs to the asking for immediate German intervention. The order specifically mentioned that telegrams must reach Hitler before his planned meeting with Chamberlain, and at the same time they were to be sent in a manner that did not connect them back to nor raise suspicion of concerted action. Czechoslovak full army mobilization had a chilling effect on membership and led to a lower number