THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 10, 1938.
HUNGARY GETS HER
POUND
OF FLESH
Troops To Occupy Czech Border Towns
Komarom Meeting Reaches Agreement
Komarom, To-day.
The Hungarian and Czech delegations in the minor- ity conference being held here have reached an agreement in regard to territory to be ceded to Hungary. The agreement provides for occupation by Hun- garian troops within thirty-six hours of the two! towns of Polysas and Satoraljaujholy, Progressive release of Hungarian political prison-
ers in Czecho-Slovakia, and
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Progressive release of Hungari- | Lamberg Railway. This town was ans from the Czech Army.
split into two by the Treaty of
A few hours before the opening Trianon, a greater part remaining of the conference, an unidentified Hungarian, while a smaller part; aeroplane scattered
in on which an important shunting Russsian and Hungariaù over parts railway junction is situated, be-
came Czech: of Ruthenia.
leaflets
URGED TO DESERT
· During the negotiations, which The leaflets urged the inhabitants were conducted in a friendly to demand secession from Czecho-spirit, crowds outside kept shout- ing, "everything back again! Slovakia, and incited the people to refuse to pay taxes and soldiers to everything back again!". desert from the Czech Army.
-After approval of the demands that Czechs have to fulfil at once, Deserters who hand în machine-
the Hungarian delegates made guns and rifles are promised pay-known their remaining demands. ment in Hungarian money, the The Czechs have asked for time to leaflets alleging that the Czech
consider these. crown is losing its value.
The next meeting is expected to This was apparently, a move by take place this afternoon. Trans- sections of the Ruthenians oppose the decision of their re- presentatives in favour of an au- tonomous Ruthenia within Czecho Slovakia
who Ocean..
ONLY PRELIMINARY Yesterday's territorial agree- ment was merely preliminary ces- sion of the two frontier towns, and the conversation will continue for several days.
DRAMATIST SENDS INSIGNIA · BACK TO THE DUCE
Racialism Protest By M. Bernstein
M. Henri Bernstein, the French It is expected that the main out-dramatist, has returned to Signor line of the region to he handed over Mussolini the insignia of the Or- will not be known for two or three der of Saints Maurice and Laz- days.-Reuter.
arus, one of Italy's highest de- DEMONSTRATIONS
corations, as a protest against| As the Hungarian delegation the recent anti-Jewish measures drove through New-Komorn on of the Fascist Government. their way to the conference, a In a telegram to the Duce M. crowd of several thousand Hun-Bernstein says: "Permit me to- garians assembled at the Bridge- day to return to you this decora- head and shouted continuously, tion. I can no longer regard it] "we demand everything back as an honour to wear it when you again! we want the whole Ober- persecute, in the name of a new- land back! we won't stand for any fangled racialism, Italian citizens more bargaining!”
who are above reproach."
lay.
In the vestible of Ratheus, the M. Bernstein writes in the Hungarian delegation was received "Faris Soir": "Up to 1936 I by the Slovak delegates headed by looked upon the Duce as a Europ- Slovak Premier, M. Tiso.
& mis- Proceedings began without de-ean of genius. It was.
take. Since the axis Mussolini has been on the decline. The first result of the Czech-
"It is not because of his rap- Hungarian negotiations was that Czech troops should at once begin prochement with Germany, for a to evacuate the two frontier zones temporary calloboration perhaps as a symbol of the willingness of was justifiable, politically.
"A great statesman should the Czechs to part with the purely Hungarian territory of Oberland. know how to keep his distances, Hungarian troops will occupy these yet despite 15 years of pledges and grandiloquent speeches. Sig- two zones within 36 hours.
nor · Mussolini has abandoned One of these zones is the Hun-Austria to Hitler and to German- garian town of Ipolysag, hitherto, ism.
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known in Czech as Sany and the The German soldier, enemy of other is Satoralja Ujhely on Czech all time, holds the entry
Brenner. A war which took four territory.
Ipolysag is close to the Hun-years to win has been lost in
garian: frontier, about 901 kilo- few
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matres north of Budapest and has Purs
itants.
ely is a Hun own on the Bud
cheap success
that to borrow, from one's
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masters the goose-step ferocities of anti-Semitism.
ALL READY FOR THE SHOW. The only show in the world confined to smooth fox terriers is the Smooth Fox Terrier Associa- tion's Annual championship show which is held in Bloomsbury, Lon- don. The show will be taking place in the near future and there will be over 200 entries to be judged. All ready for the show-pup- pies belonging to Mrs. Wilson of Ealing with a cup won by their sire, wonder whether they will be lucky this year. (Copyright).
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