NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED IN PRAGUE
Prague, To-day.
LONDON THE FOCAL POINT
* LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 23, 1938.
BIG BATTLE RESUMED ON TERUEL FRONT
ON
FAVOURABLE WEA-
LONDON IS FOCAL POINT OF
MADRID, TO-DAY. THE INTENSE DIPLOMATIC AC-
BIG-SCALE OPERATIONS TIVITY WHICH HAS BEEN SET HAVE BEEN RESUMED Negotiations between the Czecho- GOING IN ALL CHIEF EUR THE TERUEL FRONT WITH Slovakian Government and theOPEAN CAPITALS AS RESULT THE
OF THE SERIOUS HAPPENINGS|THER. Sudeten German Party were resum-IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, ed yesterday when the two leading Sudeten German Deputies. Herr Karl Frank and Herr Neuwirth had an interview with Dr. Milan Hodza, the Czech Premier.
Well-informed
The Sunday meeting of Cabinet was the first since Eden's resignation.
A Republican communique claims that loyalist troops repuls- the ed an insurgent attack east of Teruel, when 250 insurgents were killed in bayonet-fighting near in-Alcala de la Selva.
Mr.
The Foreign Secretary had terviews with the German Ambas- The Balaguer-Trempsort road, sador, von Dirksen, and with the the main line of the insurgent French Ambassador.
communications with the Pyre- nees front, has been cut.
In
another one
loss of
At the same time, the members of the Czech Cabinet were in a
Although official quarters are constant touch with
preserving reticence with regard to although no further cabinet meet-the course and outcome of
Salamanca, an insurgent this communique claims the repulse ing was held.
Cabinet meeting, the discussion of a big Republican attack in the circles here de- certainly revolved around the pro-Balaguer sector, with a scribe the situation as a whole yes-spects of mediatory action to take 350 dead. Twelve Russian tanks terday evening as "still grave and a more optimistic view of the were put out of action. critical."
situation than was possible on Sa- The insurgents have captured turday. The general impression Corbalan and are in complete pos- The partial mobilisation is being is that the tension has ceased to a session of the Teruel-Cantavieja continued.
road.--Reuter. It is understood that the two Despatches from Prague reaching Sudeten German Deputies drew the London indicate that conditions attention of Dr. Hodza to the in Czechoslovakia have calmed grave situation brought about by down somewhat and polling in the measures taken by the Govern-yesterday's municipal elections was ment in the Sudeten German region. conducted in orderly fashion.-
Dr. Hodza promised to revoke a Trans-Ocean. number of restrictive measures
during the next few days excepting
the measure with regard to the
certain extent.
employment of the Czech National troops into the Sudeten
German
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MANY FATALITIES ARE the Sudeten German Deputies call-Sudeten German Party the right to FEARED AS THE RESULT OF ed Dr. Hodza's attention to the un-maintain order in their own terri-THE RIVER MUR, IN STYRIA justifiable movement of Czech tory themselves. Trans-Ocean. AND CARINTHIA BURSTING ITS
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All traffic between Austria and Yugo-Slavia is reported to have been stopped, and bridges have broken down.
The disaster is stated to have been due to the sudden melting of snow followed by excessive rain.
The country north of Graz is said to be "one wide brown stream."
Many houses in Forhnleiden were swept away and 27 people are mo rooned in one house.-Reutar.
Hitherto thirteen are dead and 5,000 homeless in the flood disaster in Styria and Carinthia-Reuter.
GERMANY ORDERING ADVISERS TO LEAVE (Continued from Page 1) hardly any fighting in the imme- diate vicinity. The retiring.troops broke through the investing Ja- panese armies on the southern Tientsin-Pukow front almost ati will, without any loss, and have taken up new positions according to pre-arranged plans.
re-
"The orderly nature of the treat, now confirmed by Reuter's correspondent with the Japanese armies at the front, sets at nought previous fantastic Japanese claims of fifty Chinese divisions trapped around Hsuchow. There was no rout, with tremendous loss of men and material such as occurred ́in the retreat from Shanghai and Nanking; instead the Chinese arm- ies have learnt to maneuvre with disciplined precision over the vast chess board.”—Central News.
JAPANESE ADMISSION
Shanghai, To-day. The Japanese spokesman to- day admitted that several di- visions of Chinese. troops, claimed to have been trapped south-east of Hsuchow, have succeeded in forcing their way through the Japanese net west-
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