THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 12,
1938.
CZECH-HUNGARIAN PARLEY DEADLOCK Negotiations End in Failure Owing to Budapest Demands
Two Wireless Receivers Confiscated
Troops Occupy
Border
Areas
PRAGUE, Oct. 11.
NEGOTIATIONS at Komorn have reached a
stalemate owing to the Czechs' rofusal to surrender territory for 300 miles along tho southern frontier.
It is reported that Hungary is insisting on the use of a 1910 ethnological map and Czecho-Slovakia wants to use one made in 1930.
The Hungarians are also demanding the cession of territory from Bratislava to Uzhorod on the Ruthenia border.
The acceptance of these demands has not yet been appointed, comprises would Isolate Ruthenia, with the ex-a Czech, German, a Sucial Deine- strip of erat, and a Jewish representative.- ception of a hollie-neck
Iand unly 38 miles wide.
FL statement Hungary has issued charging the Czcels with dilatory tactics, and while one Czech negotia tor is said to have set out for Berlin by plane, presumably to get Herr Hitler's support, the delegations In- sist that the talks have not collapsed and that there is still hope of a cum- promise-United Press.
NEW SLOVAK CABINET
Budapest, Oct. 11. The members of the new Slovak Cabluct assembled for the first time at 8 p.m. to-day.
Reuter.
SOVIET ENVOY PROTESTS
London, Oct. 11. The Soviet Ambassador in London, M. Maisky, eaited on Lord Hallfax, the British Foreign Minister, morning to protest against the alleged statement by Lord Winterton that Russia did not offer to help Czecho-
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Stoyakia during the recent crisis and made "only very vague promises owing to her military weakness."
A statement issued by the Soviet Embassy describes the statement as
"perversion of
of the actual position
After Raid
30.-(1) No person shall, in any place in the Colony or on board any British ship registered in the Colony--
(a) establish, maintain, work or use a radiocommunica- tion station; or
(b) offer for sale, sell or have in his possession, whether with a view to sale or otherwise, any apparatus: or material for radiocommunication,
except under and in accordance with a licence, sale permit or letter of oxomption granted under this Ordinance.
TWO EXPENSIVE
RADIO RECEIVERS and a large quantity of radio apparatus were con- fiscated by order of Mr. H. R. Buttera, Chief Magis- trate, this morning.
WAH.
WAII.
The receivers and apparatus were owned by Kwong Ying-pui, of 2, Stanley Street.
The apparatus was seized by the Wireless Department following raid on Kwong's premises.
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When an assistant Radio Inspector to visited the premises be was refuard
Reproduced from the Telecommunications Ordinance. Fines up $1,000 with or without imprisonment for twelve months are provided for admission by defendant, and a war- infringements of these regulations.
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rant had to be taken out by the De- partment.
During the subsequent search, led by Mr.. A. E. E, Jeffries, Inspector of Czecho-Slovakia to-day to make
settlement of the Hungarian minori-Wireless, the apparatus was discover- symbolic mcupation" of the towns ly problems in Czecho-Slovaklu. ed hidden in a cockloft.
Professor Vinsillart, the British One of the receivers was In work- of pelysag and the Czech section of
ethnological and geographical expert ing order. Included in the
apparatus the town of Sateraljaújhely,
These areas have been eeded to has been called in, therefore, and he seized by the Department were 64 the Czecho-Slovakian is expected to arrive in Czecho-valves, and several condensers and Hungary by delegates at the Conference nt Slovakia ·by air to-night-Trans- | transformers. Komorn 16 Rn earnest of their Ocean.
Kwong was fined $150 when he ap- SETBACK TO SCHEME
peared at the Central Magistracy readiness to hand over territory in which the Hungarian population
Prague, Oct. 11.
this morning to answer charges un- dominates.
According to semi-official reports The Polish and Ilungarian scheme der the Telecommunications' Ordin- ance. The confiscated apparatus will were to detach Ruthenia from Czecho~ be retained by the Wireless Depart- troops The Cabinet, it is reported, took of the Soviet, which was explicitly the
stated by M, Litvinoff at Geneva on enthusiastically received by the Slovakia and unite it with Hungary ment and added to the large number cognisance of the Prague Govern state
received a set-back to-day with the of receivers and other apparatus al- ment's decision declaring the Slovak September 20, when he recapitulated populace at Suteraljaujhely.
himself Government
With the occupation of the railway formation of an autonomous govern- ready seized. to be competent to the conversation between
The new handle ali Slovak Affairs, and decid-and the French Charge d'Affaires in at this town the control of the line inent for that region.
Mr. Jeffries told the Court this which Joining Czecho-Stovcicia with Government is on the model of the morning that defendant was carrying ed that members of the Slovak Gov- Moscow on September 2, In
the Soviet Minister declared that the Rumanla passes Into Hungarian new Slovak Government which was ernment should attend the sessions of
intended In Soviet
to full all her hands-Reuter. Council the Central Ministerial
formed last week within the Czech a small radio business without a
Brence. obligations under the Soviet-Czech Prague.
A special department was created fact, and, together with France, would afford assistance to Czecho- for Hungarian and German minori- ties which will hoid a regular weekly Slovakia. ression. Trans-Ocean,
JEWS IN PRAGUE
Prague, Oct. 12.
Prague papers tend to raise
appro-i
Hungarian
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
com-
Slate.
This development was announced
at the conclusion of the negotiations garino and Polish frontiers are the Czecho-Slovakian which have been going on between virtually closed.---United Press.
Government and Ruthenian delegates.
It is hoped that the Hungarian plebiscite will now
Budapest, Oct. 11, The Soviet War Department was border by Hungarian troops was The news of the crossing of the ready to start immediate staff Lates with the French War Department in announced in the following terms:
In the Jubilee year of the order to discuss measures in-priate to the moment. Independent-ration of Hungary's King St. proposal for n
of this M. Litvinoff suggested rais. Stephen, and in the Nineteenth year be dropped-Reuter, in the Czech question at the League of the Government of the Regent, of Nations under Article Two of the garlan troops Covenant, and to enll an immediate frontier dictated by the Treaty consultation between Great Powers Trianon.-Trans-Ocean. One paper points out that 08 prof Europe and other interested Powers cent. of the lawyers and 40 per cent. of the doctors in Prague are Jews to decide the terms of a collective
demarche.
creasingly frequently the question of
Jewish refugees and suggest that Czecho-Slovakia has done more than her fair share of helping the Jew.
Reuter.
LORD MAYOR'S FUND
The stalement added that "It was
Admiral Nicholas de Horthy, un-
have crossed
DELEGATES MEET
the
of
REFUGEES' APPEAL
Prague, Oct. 11. About 700 Austrian German retu- Lees have handed an appeal to Sir Neil Malcolm, the High Commissioner for refugees of the League of Nations, usician him to aid the United States Legation in finding them an asylum in the United States or some other
The
The Lord Mayor of London busy four weeks before the Munich morning for three hours and later paupeal says that many of the
Prague, Oct. 12. constituted a local committee to dis- tribute the Fund he is rising in Britain for the rellet of refugees in Czecho-Slovakia.
The Committee, which will be presided over by an Englishman who
TO-MORROW
AT
Reuter,
Infernoon.
Komorn, Oct. 11. not the fault of the Soviet if these The Hungarian and Czecho-Slova- proposals, which were made near-kian delegations met here again this Conference, brought no response assembled for a short time in the A proposal by the Czecho- Slovakion delegation to postpone the meeting for a week in view of the inck of necessary statistical data was Prague is faced with the problem opposed by the Hungarians who in-ot anding homes for about 80,000 sist on an immediate discussion and German refugees to whom the Hun-
TROOPS CROSS CZECH FRONT
Budapest, Oct. 11. Hungarian Troops marched into
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LONDON FUND GROWS
London, Oct. 11. 'The Lord Mayor's Fund for Czech refugees is now nearly £60,000. — Reuter.
BRITISHI VOLUNTEERS
London, Oct. 11. The British Legion Volunteer Force which is awaiting Police orders to go to Czecho-Slovakia will to-morrow and leave the Olympla smbark at Tilbury on the steamers Naldera and Dunera.
Nothing definite has been decided as yet about the actual departure of the ships and in hot likely that final orders will be issued to the Legion until all the men have em- barked. To-day large parties of the men were engaged in taking
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