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ARREST OF SUDETEN
GERMANS CAUSES BITTER: FEELING AT WARNSDORF
Prague, To-day.
A new incident is reported from the Sudeten Ger- man town of Warnsdorf, which is situated close to the frontier between Czecho-Slovakia and Germany. According to an account given of the incident by. the Sudeten German Party, a group of 47 mem- bers of the Sudeten German Party were ar- rested by the Czecho-Slovakian Federal Police on Saturday evening when they were guarding a huge election poster outside the town, which local Marxists had threaten to tear down. The Police are alleged to have, Saturday night and yesterday. assaulted the Sudeten Germans, INCIDENTS ALLEGED
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Some of these are said to be of truncheons and rifle butts, and such a grave character as to in- driven them to the Post Office duce the Sudeten German Party to where the police patrols are sta-consider the question as to whether tioned. The arrested men, who it will recognize the result of the were drenched by rain, were elections at all. compelled to stand in a small In Reichenberg for instance stones room, all night.
were thrown by Czechs and Com- When the arrest became known munists at the windows of the Ger- in the morning, Sudeten German man houses which had been de- inhabitants held a protest decorated for the occasion. Despite monstration outside the building the protest of the Sudeten German of the District Court and de-Deputies the police refused to in- manded the release of the arrest-terfere. Five Sudeten Germans are ed men.
reported to have been conveyed to the hospital suffering from in- Sudeten German workers de-juries. Trans-Ocean. clared a protest strike and shop- owners kept their shops closed.
PROTEST STRIKE
According to some reports, no fewer than 10,000 persons took part in the protest demonstra- tion outside the court building.
Hearing of the prisoners was be- gun on Saturday morning. In the afternoon, 25 of the arrested men were released.
DEMANDS OF SUDETENS
PARIS, TO-DAY. THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN MI- NISTER IN PARIS, M. OSUSKY, Sudeten German Deputy, Dr. WHO RETURNED YESTERDAY Neumirth, in the meantime, had MORNING FROM A SHORT VISIT protested to the Ministy of Justice,TO PRAGUE, GAVE TO A RE- at Prague, where he received an as-PRESENTATIVE OF THE "PARIS surance that the arrested men SOIR" WHO INTERVIEWED HIM would-be released at once-after-the-AT THE STATION, THE FOL |hearing.
LOWING BRIEF STATEMENT: FRACTURED THIGH
"We now know, although only Another deputy of the Sudeten since Wednesday, what the Sudeten German Party by his persistent pro-Germans are demanding. tests, secured a withdrawal of "The negotiations which will begin Czech Police detachments from the this week are confidently expected streets of Warnsdorf, during the to lead to a concrete solution of fracas one of the members of Su-this question." deten German Party suffered
Asked whether these negotiations extended fracture of the thighbone, and an-are likely to be of an other of the shinbone.
duration, M. Osusky replied: "De- It is obvious that we
One of the arrested men suffered cidely not. an injury to his head, cause of cannot except everything contained which; however, appears to be un-in the demands. Nevertheless I certain. Marxists of Warnsdorf are can assure you that the demands said to have torn down all Sude-put forward will in their entirety ten German election posters while be adopted as the basis for: a study the Police looked on. Trans-of the special Statute which we are.
planning for our minorities.”—→ Trans-Ocean.
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SUDETEN AREA
TURKISH MISSION FOR SANJAK
Prague, To-day. The Municipal elections in Cecho slovakia were concluded on Sunday when at four o'clock in the after- noon the polling booths were clos- ed in about 8000 constituencies.
Ankara, To-day. These included upwards of one The Turkish Military Delegation, thousand Sudeten German constitu- headed by General Gunduz, Deputy encies where, as far as can be judgTM Chief of General Staff, left here ed at the present moment, Konrad on Saturday in a special train for Henlein's party claimed an average the Sanjak of Alexandretta. The of over 80 per cent, of all the Ger- Delegation, includes, General Acika: man votes whilst the Social Demo-lin and Captain Menguc, directors grats and the Communists are re- of military operations in the Gen- ported to have suffered a severe eral Staff. setback.
The Turkish Military Delegation
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In Reichenau, Konrad Henlein's will discuss questions relating to home town there was a 100 per cent. the Sanjak with the French Mili- TRADE MARK poll for his party. According to tary Mission under the leadership
reports reaching Prague a whole se- lof General Hurtzinger, Trans rigs of fresh incidents occurred on Ocean.
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