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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1939.
SUDETENLAND NEUTRALITY
PURGE
OF SPAIN
The general feeling about The arrest of a number of Spain's part in any future prominent Sudeten officials, war-a feeling which is find- including Herr Brass, who is ing fresh expression as the an associate of Herr Frank, result of the announcement Franco's Ca- the deputy Regional Gover of General
is that Spain cannot nor of the Sudetenland, in- binet dicates a radical change in possibly permit herself to be-
come embroiled.
German Czechs. Grave charges are being prepared.
policy toward the
The purge is the outcome of differ ences between the Sudeten Germans and the Reich Germans: regarding the best method of appeasing the Czechs.
The Reich Germans are aware that German prestige is being damaged by the uncompromising hostility of the Sudeten Germans to the Czechs-an attitude which is causing the reluce tance of the Czechs to co-operate.
The Reich Germans are anxious to pursue a more cautious policy of "pro- tection."
"In a leading article "The Times" says: "For Spain, in her present con-
dution to seek unity and recovery In a foreign adventure, would be as dis- astrous as for a man exhausted by fever to plunge into a cold bath.
"The civil war has left behind it dis- organised industry, defective machin- ery, a serious lack of raw materials, concentration camps, banditry, and personal vendettas, to say nothing of a drastic censorship. Only time and tell and growing confidence can remove this accumulation of evils:” .
"The
LOOKING TO FRANCO Regarding the new Cabinet. Times" observes: "All that can be said It is reported that 10 important at present is that General Franco ex- Reich officials will replace Sudetenercises the only truly unifying in- Germans in the office of the Protector fluence among the leaders of the State,
Baron von of Bohemia-Moravia.
and is the man to whom the nation Neurath.
looks to produce a consistent Govern- Nationalment."
Meanwhile,
the Czechi
ever-
Unity Party's influence is steadily The Diplomatic Correspondent of growing. The party is now demand a the "Manchester Guardian." In analy- firmer attitude toward the Germans.
sing Spain's position in a column ár- The Prague Government has been ticle; says: "In spite of the asked to insist that municipal elections growing power of the pro-German in towns where there is. a German and pro-Italian Falangists, the declin- minority at present should by "con-ing Influence of the Monarchists and entire trolled," and that there should be
the total suppression of the a continuance of measures against Czech | Left, including the moderates, Spain is Fascists and Czech National Socialists. determined to remain neutral in the
In furtherance of the Germanisa- event of a European conflict." tion of certain areas, all Czech far- mers at Nemilancy, 2 village near Olmuetz, have been sent to prison on unspecified charges, and have been advised to sell their farms to Germans.
SEVEN PEOPLE GARROTTED
in-
The remaining seven people, cluding two women, who are alleged to have been involved in the con- spiracy which resulted in the mur- der of Major Gabaldon Irunzun, In- spector of the Madrid Police, have been garrotted the Spanish method of capital punishment by strangula- tion.
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Sentence on these seven, who in cluded the man who is alleged to have been the actual murderer of Major Irunzun, was delayed while the Judges deliberated on the method of execution.
MINOR REVOLTS IN AUSTRIA
General dissatisfaction with and minor revolts against German authority in · Aus- tria are reported to have again arisen.
Whereas the police were at first re- cruited from local Nazi partisans, these Nazis are now being sent to Ber- in and are being replaced by Ger- man Nazis.
Workers, almost daily, promote fac- tory strikes and openly, disrupt 'Nazi Party meeting.. Farmers declare that Nazi promises of a reduction of taxes and cancellation of mortgages have not been fulfilled. On the contrary, The taxes have been increased. farmers say that they are no lon- 'Garrotting was ordered, it is stat- ger masters of their own products. ed, as. being "symbolic of the
Disquiet has been intensified by the temptible nature of the crime.”
recent arrival in Vienna, from Ger- (Fifty-three men had previously many, of tanks, artillery, and armour- been executed for their alleged parted cars, which have been placed in the conspiracy.)
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HOOFPRINTS FOR POSTERITY
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strategically in the hills surrounding the city.
Statements that these measures re- present part of the normal military manoeuvres do not convince the Aus- trians, who visualise an actual threat of enforcement of Nazi principles.
The memory of Vienna's actions against the Invading forces of Islam in the 16th and 17th centuries is revived Mercer, a grand champion steer, by, an inscription found in Stefan paid a visit to Haskell, the Indian in Platz. In the heart of the city. the mounted guard which formed a guard of honour for the King and states: "We drove out the Turks, and Queen on the occasion of their visit we will get rid of the Germans, too." to the New York World's Fair.
With the steer as an escort, Haskell was taken to Perylon Hall, where he was received by Mr. Whalen, was in formal morning attire.
who
The distinguished visitors' register, bearing among other; names, those of the King and Queen, and President Roosevelt, was then placed on the ground, and the steers' right hoof, smeared in ink. was placed on a page so that it could leave its impress on the register.
The animal's hoof prints were also preserved for posterity on a slab of wet concrete, alongside the footprints |
FLIER BEHEADED IN-MID-AIR
It
What an expert described as chance in a million eventuated when, during a mid-air collision between two Royal Air Force bombers over Nottingham, the wing of the upper- most plane cut through the glass roof of the cockpit of the other plane and beheaded Sergeant Ronald Jef- fries Williams, stationed at Benson, Oxfordshire.
of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of The pilots carried on until they the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
successfully landed in open country,
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