FRONTIER INCURSIONS Prague Declares German Reports Exaggerated
Storm Troops And Black Guards
With Sudetens
Prague, To-day.
While a number of frontier incursions have occur- red, reports reaching official circles show that earlier reports of a general invasion were exaggerated.
POLAND'S DEMARCHE
Prague, To-day,
The Polish Minister in Prague yesterday called on the Czech Prime Minister and reminded him of the necessity of an immediate reply to the Polish note asking for equality of treatment of the Polish minority in Czecho-Slova“. kia-Reuter.
WOMEN LEAVE
SOVIET GIVES FURTHER ASSURANCE
Geneva, To-day.
The Soviet attitude in the pre- sent crisis was explained by the Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinov, here yesterday.
M. Litvinov said that after ac- cepting the “German-Anglo-French ultimatum," the Czech Government asked the Soviet whether it would consider itself bound to the Czech- Soviet Pact in the event of Ger-
A detailed Czech account gives the following exam- ples. In the Schluckenau district, insurgents, interspersed with S.A. and S.S. men, penetrat- yesterday, carrying the wives of the many presenting new demands, the
ed several kilometres into Czecho-Slovakia.
At Caste Hamry, ten Czech cus- .toms officers were captured by Ger-
man customs
-Prague, To-day. An aeroplane left for London
British Legation staff. Reuter.
officers, suggesting British And German War
that in some cases the insurgents are being assisted by the German authorities.
At the customs house at Libna, the commandant of the local police, himself a Sudeten, was captured and. murdered.
At Gottesgab, a number of cus- toms officials were captured.
A Czech customs officer was kill-
éd at Weipert.
At Vitravia, four were killed and twelve wounded. Reuter.
FIGHTING
Prague, To-day.
Incursions into Czecho-Slovakia by armed Sudetens, assisted by Ger- man Storm Troopers and Black Guards, are being resisted.
According to official reports, ef- forts are being made to evict Su- detens stated to have already® cap-| tured control of some towns and districts.
SERIOUS SITUATION
The situation is described as ser- ious around the frontier. towns of Asch, in West Rumburg, and Warnsdorf, in the north, where the Sudeten advance is strongest.
The Sudetens are alleged to be spreading a report that the German army is following.—Reuter.
PRAGUE STREETS NOW CALM
Prague, To-day.
The streets here presented a calm aspect yesterday morning, and the number and extent of demonstra- tions have greatly decreased.
Conformably with orders issued by the authorities, the majority of workers have resumed work.
It is generally expected that Gen- eral Sirovy's Cabinet will strongly resist the London plan.
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Veterans Dine At
Park Lane Hotel
London, To-day.
Forty British and German ex-Servicemen dined at the Park Lane Hotel last night, with the Union Jack and the Nazi flag side by side on the table, when the British Legion entertained the lead- ers of 800 German ex-Servicemen now visiting London,
ALL RAILWAY TRAFFIC SUSPENDED
Berlin, To-day.
A German news agency reports from Dresden that the entire rail- way traffic has been suspended on ten lines running from Germany into. Czecho-Slovakia.-
Anglo-German negotiations being unsuccessful and Czecho-Slovakia deciding to defend her frontiers by
arms.
The Soviet replied that in the event of France granting assist- ance under the conditions mention- ed, the Czech-Soviet Pact would enter into force. Reuter.
KAI TACK'S FUTURE
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the follow- The Germans presented the Legion ing to be members of a Committee with a bronze statuette depicting to inquire into the adequacy of the two German soldiers assisting a aerodrome at Kai Tak and its
equipment: wounded Britisher.
The Director of Air S
(Chairman).
Sir
Major-General
Frederick Maurice, acknowledging the gift, hoped that both countries would co-operate in the interests of hu- manity.
General von Fabeck replied that Germans wanted to co-operate and ensure peace. Reuter.
EGYPTIAN WAR
Reason given in most cases is the MINISTER LEAVES
alleged dynamiting of the track and bridges by the Czechs-Reu- ter.
London, To-day.
Services
The Honourable the Director of
Public Works.
Group Captain Arthur Hicks
Peck, D.S.O., M.C.. Lientenant-Commander
Alexan-
der Dalrymple Stewart Murray. George Gwinnett Noble Tinson,
Esq.
GAVE LIFE FOR
A SPARROW
Theory that a man killed by a The Egyptian Minister of War, who has been the guest of the Bri- train may have stepped back on tish Government for the past fort to the line to retrieve a sparrow night, left London yesterday for lying on the track was put for- ward by the South Devon coroner, Mr. Hutchings, at a Torquay in- He was seen off at the station by representatives of the Diplomatic quest on Frederick George Hook- way, of Devonshire-place, Teign- Corps, the three fighting Services mouth. and the Foreign Office.Reuters
INDIAN OFFERS TO Cairo.
KING-EMPEROR
Simla, To-day. Eight more Indian rulers: have
Hookway was killed by a train near Torre Station, Torquay, on
Nervousness is observable offered their services to the King- NEW A.D.C.'S Tuesday afternoon while working
bourgeois circles regarding the de- cisions of the new Cabinet notably so far as its military measures are concerned. Trans-Ocean.
FASCIST MARCH IN LONDON BANNED
London, To-day.
Emperor in the event of
Reuter.
war.
on the points. Medical evidence
His Excellency the Governor has showed that approved the relinquishment
the appointme
officers as hia Honorary-
QUEEN STAYS IN Camp with offect rom fo
LONDON
London, To-day.
The Queen has postponed her re- had intended to go to Scotland yes terday afternoon-Reuter.
September 1938- Commander Ronald Clerk Grieve," Hong Volunteer Force:
Kong!
Naval
Reginald Seymour Major Hong DIPLOMATS HAVE
Kong Police. Flight Lieutenant
A proposed march by the Fascist to Balmoral until to-day. She Richard Lindsay Wallace, Royal
Air Force. His Excellency ap- pointed the following:-Mr. Ken- neth Andrew Bidmead, Hong Kong Police. Lieutenant Ronald Robert
CONVERSATIONS
London, To-day,
from the Embankment to
Sir Horace Wilson had two con- bramith on Sunday has been
His Excellency the Governor has the Metropolitan Com-
Police on the ground appointed Mr. Arthur Grenfell Wilson Ashby, Hong Kong Naval versations, in company with Sir Ne- ch or procession dould Clarke to be District Officer, South, Volunteer Force. Flying Officer vile Henderson, with Herr von Rib-
from-20th September, Noel William Wright, Royal Air bentrop last evening.
Ocean. 17-existing cirònm, 1 with effe
Torce. '1988.
that
Allow
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