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ZONE FIVE ADDS TO CZECH BITTERNESS
CAN DO NOTHING BUT
BRITAIN GIVES
ACCEPT TERRIBLE DECISION WARNING TO
FRANCO TO RELEASE VOLUNTEERS
St. Jean de Luz, To-day. General Franco has agreed to imminent withdrawal of about 30 per cent. of volunteers fighting on the Spanish Nationalist side, states-a- Burgos message.
This represents a "token with- drawal" of about 10,000 men→ Reuter.
Prague, To-day. POLAND
› LONDON. TO-DAY, IT IS LEARNED IN AU-
́INORE, [GARD TO POLISH · CLAIMS FOR A COMMON FRONTIER WITH HUNGARY, HAS BEEN
"We can do nothing but accept the terrible condi- tions imposed upon us," declared the Premier, General Sirovy, in a proclamation to the Czech THORITATIVE QUARTERS Army yesterday, referring to the decision of THAT THE BRITISH GOVERN- the international committee regarding the MENT'S POSITION fifth zone of occupation by the Nazis. General Sirovy added: "Let our slogan be disci- MADE CLEAR TO WARSAW.
pline and order. The Government has decided
No minority claim in Czecho to carry out loyally the Munich agreement in Slovakia will receive the support order to save at least the rest of our territory of the British Government unless it is based on purely ethnological in order to create conditions for a new life.
grounds.
GERMAN ARMY discussions, opinions and demands, ing that the Czech problem has not emphasis was laid on the British
OFFICERS GLOAT OVER MAGINOT SECRETS
German officers are openly gloating over the fact that the secret of the formidable. Czech fortifications, based on the French
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"Let us set aside recriminations, There is now developing a feel- It is believed that particular
however well justified they may disappeared with the Munich Agree- undertaking, as outlined by the seem, and concentrate our efforts [ment. This view appears to be Defence Co-ordination Minister, and goodwill on the support of given added weight by announce-Sir Thomas Inskip, to consider those called to reconstruct the ment. of a Polish-Hungarian Agree-the guarantee of Czecho-Slovakia State.
ment to bring pressure on Pragues being in force. in close collaboration.
"The need of the moment de- mands that we employ all forces for security of the new frontier and ensure peace and order within the State.
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GIVE NO PRETEXT
"Let us not forget that distur bances will be used as a pretext for intervention..
"There is nothing for us to do Maginot Line, are now in Nazi but to accept our fate and do our hands.
duty."-Reuter,
German soldiers, says Reuter from Mittelalde, yesterday after- noon took possession of the western end of this system of| defence, known as the Schoeber Line.
PRAGUE INDIGNATION
London, To-day. The correspondents in Prague of London's leading newspapers all re- flect the intense shock and indigna- tion felt in Prague at the Interna- morning. when tional Commission's demarcation Czech soldiers evacuated the of Zone 5 of the German occupa- fort, the secret of these fortition. fications had been as closely
Until the
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It is pointed out that Zone 5 as guarded as those of the Maginot agreed by the Commission under Line.
German pressure is bigger than all They were constructed under the other four zones put together. French military sunervision, and end obvious anomalies are bitterly emholy many features of the commented upon, Marinot Line.
Feeling in Paris as well as The forts are constructed of Pramme Is that the spirit as well as concrete five feet thick and bris- the letter of the Munich Agreement tle with machine guns and can- is exceeded by the Mixed: Commia- sion's decision and the members are nons.
caustically criti
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Polish quarters stress that In London, anger is expressed in the return of Ruthenia to Hun- opposition quarters at develop-gary is essential before the min- ments, which are described as ajorities question in Czecho-Slo surrender to Germany even more vakia can be solved and guaran- [obnoxious than could have [contemplated at Munich.
been tee given for a new frontier.
Reuter.
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