THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1988.
OF
GERMAN CHARGES
CZECH ARMY MOVES Six Hours Notice To Reservists Alleged
PRAGUE ISSUE GUERILLAS FIRST THROUGH
FLOODING ZONES TRAIN FROM
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FURTHER CONTRADICTIONS BEHIND
Berlin, To-day. JAPANESE LINES
Peiping, To-day.
HANKOW
The first through train from Hankow to Hong Kong arrived at Kowloon yesterday afternoon at about 3 p.m. having been delayed
Hankow at 10 p.m. on Thurs-
Despite Czech denials, another report issued by the official German news agency from Walden- burg, declares that the Czech garrison in fron- A policy of flooding the at Cheungmuktow by a bombing tier districts has been considerably strength- Japanese occupied terri-rald for seven hours. The train ened.
[tory now is being carried day. It consisted of ten coaches, The report alleges that reservists were called up at out behind the Japanese seven of which were for passen-
six hours' notice and sent to Braunau from lines. Prague and Presburg.
The report also asserts that barricades were erected in the streets of frontier towns on Satur- day, and were removed early yes- terday morning, although the
gers.
The train brought over 300 A band of guerillas destroyed passengers from Hankow, the South dyke of the Yungting give, forthwith the Sudeten River, about twenty miles north- Germans that to which they west of Tientsin, seriously flood- have a legal, natural and hu-ing the large low-lying areas man claim."
CHINESE SEND
west of Tientsin, but it is expect-TROOPS TO NAMOA
Island.
The military game played by fed that the Japanese will be able barricades remain in strategical Prague must come to an end. to. repair the breaks in the dyke positions. Gun and machine-gun-
Canton, To-day. The "Berliner Boersen-Zeitung" before Tientsin is seriously emplacements, in which
A large force of Chinese troops the considers that the denial by the threatened. muzzles of .. guns were clearly Czechian Minister in Berlin that the
The heavy rains in North-west has crossed from the mainland visible
to Namba Island. on Saturday, have again Czechoslovakian Government had China are causing a rapid rise of been covered up. Reuter.
ordered any measures of mobilisa- the Yellow River which is flood-According to vernacular mes- sages from Swatow, not a single tion, ignores the nature of the re-ing North Honan and deepening Japanese soldier remains on the ported facts. German quarters had the waters in the Kaifeng area.
Japanese troops are strengthen- not. spoken of mobilisation but of,
Yesterday Ing the protective dykes around bombed the Chinese military, military measures.
Japanese planes the City's walls by packing sand while the warship shelled the bags around the walls so that, in coast. Our Own Correspondent. the event that the dykes cave in, the city of Kaifeng will still be dry. The flood now extends 25 two Japanese Army trucks were miles to the east of Kaifeng.
attacked with hand-grenades and ROAD UNDER FIRE were found with the drivers dead
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE
Prague, To-day. A communique issued last night repeats the denial given yesterday that there has been no abnormal movements of troops in any part of the State's territory and that har- vest operations, therefore, have not
been interfered with.-
FRONTIER CONTROL The report of the semi-official news agency from Waldenburg in Silesia reports that in the Sudeten German frontier region the closure of the
Regarding the reproach addressed by a German news agency to the frontier prevailing on S Saturday had Chinese guerillas are to-day by the side of the road. Czech military authorities that the been removed on Sunday and the blocking the Peiping-Tientsin An American driver was told approach to certain zones had been sentries withdrawn, but adds that highway. Foreign trucks flying that any Germans, Italians or prohibited, the communique points on Wednesday and Thursday num- the American flag are allowed to Japanese would
similarly out that it is not peculiar to Cze-erous reservists in the various parts go and return unmolested, but blown up. Reuter. choslavakia that regions of military of Czechoslovakia received six
importance should be denied to hours notice to report for two
hikers. Reuter
GERMAN ANSWER
Berlin, To-day..
months' exercises.
Troops have also been sent from Prague and from Slovakia to inforce the garrisons in the Sudeten Answering the official Czechian Ger han frontier townships of Brau- denial of the report of new Czenau Trautenau and Nachod chian
mobilisation “measures The numerous persons who passed: throughout all the Sudeten German through the frontier regions on frontier territories, a German offl- Saturday are all agreed that at cial news agency states that the Braunau, Trautenau and Nachod German press yesterday had also the garrisons have been considerably quite correctly disputed the correct- strengthened by troops from Prague ness of the Czechian denial
and Slovakia and in part carry no The "Volkischer Beobachter" for regimental numbers.
The requisi- example declared that troop move- tions of carts and drays from the ments and mobilisation measures in farmers have, moreover been only the Czechian-frontier regions had partly rescinded. Farmers were, been undeniably observed and cor- moreover, not allowed to do their rectly reported. "Prague had ob-harvesting in the frontier regions viously such a bad conscience about yesterday, although the weather was its Nationalities Statute that it ideal for completing the cutting of feels obliged again to send its solda- rye and although the corn standa teska into the Sudeten German ter- ripe on the fields. ritories in order to appease the con- sequences of this *work of quillisation.”
tran-
SIMILAR REPORTS
Similar reports have been received } {* NEWSPAPER DEMANDS
The ̄ ̄ ̄“Volkischer Beobachter" from Lichtenau, Machrisch-Altstadt and from Reichenstein. From Brau- directs to the London and Paris
nau it is reported that on Satur- Governments demands:
day night the roads along the fron- tier were in part blocked and ex- traordinarily lively traffic in mill- tary lorries in the frontier zones
(1) To put an end to mischief-
making by the press,
(2) To tell the rulers in Prague
that they can recko kind of support if they do not instantly cease the
credible provocation the 75 millions of Germans and
Among the troops newly, ived in Braunau were many re- vists who had been summoned at hours notice on Wednesday and to appear for two months' military service.—Trans-Ocean.
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