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Progue, Aug. B.
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The Sudeten German Party has announced that it Is protesting against the "careless shouting" of Czech soldiers from an army truck Mittel-Langenau, crusing Sudeten farmers to throw themselves Six bullets struck on the ground. their wagos.
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AUGUST 10. 1938.
JAPANESE REPORT GERMAN PLEDGES
For Aid In Event Of Soviet War
Tokyo, Ang. 9. Japanese newspapers report from that the German Foreign
It is stated that the parties are Company and other units of the Berlin reporting to Lord Runciman all the S.V.C., started patrolling the Minister, Here von Ribbentrop, as- week-end politeal incidents, includ- main thoroughfares of the Inter-sured the Japanese Ambassador In Germany that "she is willing to sup- ing that near the Hartmanitz Beer Hall where it is alleged Robert¡ national' Settlement this moru port Japan of any cost in her com- Hoiden, an Austrian refugee, stabbed ing.
drawn
plications with the Soviet." theism over the report, emphasising Political circles here express seep- that they had heard nothing to this effect from Berlin.
Well-informed persons think that Germany is not anxious for a Russo- Japanese war at present. Moreover they are convinced that German help for Japan in the event of war is most unlikely-Reuter.
"MORAL SUPPORT"
to death Wenzel Bayelle, a Sudeten Police writish soldiers on duty SCRET accom- form labourer in A political argu- ment; the denuding of Sudeten far-it the street intersections, and exten- mers wearing white stockings ve searchings of cafe, rickshas | through- Nazi emblem and also the mysterious and pedestrians will proceed shooting in which an unidentified out to-day.
The British military authorities person is reported to have been
toid Renter, that the duties of the killed. United Press,
British forces in Shanghai during the emergency period will be essentially of a military character, and no duties will be carried out. It is
Derlin, Aug. 9. stressed, however, that the military Japanese circles here declare that and police will maintain close co- Herr von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minis- operation.
ter, has given an assurance to the Ralu. aften
termed "Shanghai's Japanese Ambassador that, in case best policeman", continued through of a conflict between Japan and the uu! yesterday, and there were
no Suviel, Germany will afford Japan moral support und "support from terrarist activities.-Reuter,
other points of view."
pollee
BAIERLE VICTIM OF BRAWL
Prague, Aug. 9. The official
Czeclin-Slovak Press Bureau has published a lengthy statement regarding the assassina tion of Balerle,
assailant, 28-year-old The labourer named Robert Holden, was arrested, according to the statement, which described Holden as a-Marxist who had fled from Vienna.
During the brawl at a public be prevented house between 14 members of the threat to all Europe, German Social Democratic Party und
THREATENING NOTE tore
of members
the Sudeten
Boersenzeitung German Party, Balerie was knocked
The Berliner down and fed. Holden chased him
assumes a threatening note in ad- and stabbed him severul times.
vising the Czechs that the German not possess unlimited Heiden confessed, and after ques-nation does
taken to tioning by Police was
patience and will not stand by while Germans are discriminated against prison.-Trans-Decan.
and victimized merely because they belong to the German race.
GERMAN VIEWS
Czech
·
from becoming
Berlin, Aug. 8.
"We do not ask whether Prague The official Nazi Party organ in favours this state of affairs, because limates that the death of a Sudeten
her attitude, whatever it may be. in Czecho-Slovakia is merely the would no longer have any effect.
is culmination of a series of assaults. The enrdinal error of the state and insults during the past
that it gave all to the Czechs at the days in which the
groups ofcials
expense of other national and soldiers have, in the majority and that it provided a minority with of cases, been brutal aggressors. "absolute powers and exercised no
upon
this group when is due entirely to the cool-headed- ness of the Sudcles that several of were misused, and that it these cowardly attacks did not end it not prevent this minority from
utilizing power for politicni pur-j poses and brutal suppression of other minorities,"
in the same tragic manner as that in which Herr Baterie lust his life," states the paper.
Declaring that this murder, com-
curb
The time has now come, proclaims |
state
German diplomatic quarters, how- aever, hope that it will be possible to prevent any extension of the conflict beyond the limits of a local Incident.
Reuter.
STOP PRESS
German Party Visits East
youths
mitted in an atmosphere which has the paper, when the Nationalists. A part of thirty German been poisoned by months, and even must reject this sort of treatment arrived in Hongkong by the Gneise-
vitriolie agitation was years, of
and demand that economic and nau this morning on their way to shall cease. Tokyo to return the courtesy visit by the Sudetens, the paper social discrimination against
maintains that behind all these acts The situation has now reached Japanese representatives recently, deliberate plan point, according to this paper, when The party was greeted by Mr. A. of terror there is to carry matters to
a point where Czech soldiers are firing wildly in Gelewsky of the German Consulate Mr. S. Sawada of the Japanese all directions, and mobs of Czech
and Mr the Sudeten Germans w take stand of open resistance so that they street rowdies and brigands are the Consulate and afterwards toured the
to hold this can then be branded us rebellious last elements
Colony by car, trouble-makers.
together, even in principal."
An informal timin is to be given Giving the lie to the assurances at the German Club when Japanese Drawing a political moral from
and promises of President Benes and residents will be present to meet the the sorry incident, the paper em Premier Hodza, the
Berilner visitors. phasizes that when respectable per Tageblatt declares "The balance of sons are assaulted daily in
Czech intomy during the past week streets, when soldiers and gen-
in no possible act of darmes make indiscriminate use
Bucking
Men who have taken it when upon
themselves to reveal to the EXILE arms and go unpunished,
mubs attack the
Germans Sudeten Germans the advantages of because they wear white stockings, living in best of all democracies' and when the Government repre- may now rest content, because they sentatives of the
German have brought about a state of aff Party are subjected to scandalous ins insults and bodily injury, the neces-in which even life is insecure.
Laying the gulit at the doorstep sity of an independent administra- tion in the Sudeten region becomes of Moscow, the paper declares that the entire world knows who is obvious, since it is only in this stirring up this hate and who is manner that the friction which is pincing such a severe strain upon actively encouraged by Prague can¦ European peace--Trans-Ocean,
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