SUDETENS BREAK
OFF
NEGOTIATIONS
Annoyed By Incident: Promise To Reconsider New Plan Agreed
SUMMONING
OF COMMONS DEMANDED
London, To-day.
A joint meeting at Blackpool of the. General Council of the Trades Union Congress, the National Executive Labour Party and the Executive of the Parliamentary Labour Party, issued a manifesto demanding the immediate sum- moning of Parliament in order to consider the international situa- tion.-Renter.
LABOUR DEMAND FOR BRITISH GUARANTEES TO CZECHS
London, To-day.
As Suitable Basis
Prague, To-day. The Sudeten German Party has accepted the Gov- ernment's proposals as a basis for negotiations, but, at the same time, has decided to break off negotiations because of recent incidents, espe- cially that in which two Sudeten deputies are alleged to have been brutally beaten by the police at Maehrisch-Ostrau.
GOVERNMENT
REPUDIATES "THE TIMES" SUGGESTION
London, To-day.
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It is officially stated in London that
"The the suggestion: in Times" that: secession of the Su- detens from Czecho-Slovakin might be a possible solution of the present problem, in no way
tish Government.-Reuter.
They declare that this shows that the Government represents the views of the Bri-
has not sufficient control of the situation to warrant negotiations being conducted in the necessary atmosphere of calm. Complaint has been addressed):
to the President, Dr. Benes, as well as to Lord Runciman.
The Sudeten German meeting also
SUDETEN
publication of the Government's DEPUTIES HURT WHEN MOUNTED
proposals, before they were ас- tually received by themselves as parties to the negotiations.
PREMIER FINDS IT CONVENIENT TO BE IN LONDON
London, To-day.
The Prime Minister is returning to London from Scotland travelling
POLICE CHARGE through the night. He hopes to
Berlin, To-day.
be able to resume his holiday in Scotland in a few day's time,
PARTY COMMUNIQUE The Sudeten German decisions were contained in a communique issued this evening which, after accepting the Government's pro- posals as a basis for negotiations,|
A German News Agency report The National Council of Labour stated that the Sudeten German describes the alleged attack on two Ever since Mr. Chamberlain' left composed of the General Council of delegates had decided to break the Trades Union Congress and the off the discussions and to inform
Sudeten German deputies
London, he has been in constant. at telephonic touch with. Downing. National Executive of the Labour Dr. Hodza that they felt com-Maehrisch-Ostrau by Czech mount-Street and with Lord Halifax and Party, in joint session, met at Black-pelled, owing to the incident at ed police with riding whips as a has been receiving papers. "Of pool yesterday to consider a state Maehrisch-Ostrau, to interrupt
course, at such remoteness, it has ment on the international situation negotiations.
"monstrous scandal." -Reuter.
not been possible to maintain the "which it is believed will be sub- PROMISE TO RECONSIDER The report adds that the depu- same close contact as would be mitted to the Trades Union Con- A promise to reconsider the ties had gone to investigate re possible by personal conversation gress to-day by Sir Walter Citrine situation to-day was given by ports of the beating and ill-in London but there has been no on behalf of the Council-British the Sudeten Germans in a meet-treating of 82 Sudeten Germans special urgency. Wireless.
BRINK OF WAR
ing last night with Dr. Hodza, who were alleged to have been It is understood that the first who assured them that the dragged from their beds and im- part of the Prime Minister's holt- Maehrisch-Ostrau incident would prisoned for the possession of day having ended, he has found it be the subject of the strictest in-,arms or weapons.
convenient to come to London for.
The manifesto issued by the vestigation immediately and the It is added that a telegram of a day or two.-British Wireless. Council last night, calling for the guilty parties punished.
protest has been sent to Dr. reassembly of Parliament, declares This was revealed in a com- Hodza and Dr. Czerny, Minister of the Sudeten Germans arrested that the whole world stands on the munique issued after the talks, of the Interior, demanding the on a smuggling charge. brink of war and appalling, which adds that Dr. Hodza stated punishment of the officers .con- It is alleged that the two Sude. irreparable disaster threatens the at the same time that other mea-cerned in the incident reported to ten German deputies were struck foundations of civilisation owing sures would be taken with a view have occurred at Maehrisch-Os-by the mounted police although to the unrestrained violence and to preventing any recurrence of trau, where the police charged a they were brandishing legitima display of force by aggressor similar incidents... Reuter. crowd clamouring for the release 'tion certificates. Reuter.
States.
The manifesto demands that the
Spanish Government's right to pur- chase arms for their own defence should be restored and the French frontier opened.
It declares that Czecho-Slovakia is making a generous offer to satisfy the fullest aspirations of its nationalities and should the Ger- man Government, despite this, make war in Czecho-Slovakia, it will brand · · itself · · a traitor to humanity:
THREE POWER PHALANX
Every consideration of humanity forbidsthe dismemberment of Czecho-Slovakia by the subjection of the Sudeten regions to Nazi Government control and British Labour emphatically repudiates the right of the British, or any other Government, to use diploma- tic or other pressure to compel the acceptance of such humiliation.
The British Government leave no doubt in the mind
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