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CRITICAL STAGE IN CZECH
NOW REACHED
NEGOTIATIONS Talk
Lord Runciman's Long Talk With Dr. Benes
Prague Secrecy Over Decisions Now Being Taken
Prague, To-day.
No hint has hitherto been allowed to leak out from the lobbies into the press of the decisions, gen- erally felt to be very grave, which are being discussed behind the scenes.
Lord Runciman met Dr. Benes in the Presidential
Palace yesterday evening, but little is known of this talk or of the details of Lord Runciman's
meeting with Herr Konrad Henlein on Sun
day. Nevertheless, everybody realises that a critical stage has been reached.
PROTEST OVER CARTOON
Prague, To-day.
The German Legation has, pro-
-TUNGKWAN
HEAVILY BOMBED
Shanghai, To-day. Messages from the Lung-Hai area state that Japanese planes have been bombing Tungkwan for several days recently, while troops are massing in the vicinity of Chengchow with the object of at- tacking the city.—Our Own Cor- respondent.
ANTI-BRITISH BITTERNESS
LONG LONDON CONFERENCE
London, To-day:
The Prime Minister Mr. Neville Chamberlain, conferred, yesterday afternoon with the British Ambas- sador to Berlin, Sir Nevile Hender- son, who is at present in London the to report on the attitude. of Reich Government in the Czechoslo- vakian situation.
Others present at the conference included the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, and the diplomatic adviser to the Gov- ernment, Sir Robert Vansittart.
Following the discussion which lasted one hour and twenty minutes, Sir Nevile Henderson returned to the Foreign Office with Lord Hali-
Berlin, To-day. Apparently "second thoughts" fax. An attitude of calm prevails in on Sir John Simon's speech have How long he will remain in Lon- the Czech camp and the Czech inspired an outburst of bitterness don has not yet been announced press is showing a moderation against Britain, such as has not but according to the latest reports which contrasts very markedly been seen during many months. it is expected that a British diplo- with the tone of their German The British policy is criticised matic step of some kind will contemporaries.
everywhere as being outwardly taken in Berlin as result of the fairspoken, but ambiguous and London conferences. Trans-Ocean. inwardly determined to frustrate Germany's just deniands. Reuter.
Some of the newspapers an- tested to the Czech Foreign Office nounce that a Cabinet meeting is against the public display of a car-scheduled for to-day toon which is regarded not only as the new proposals for a settle- a defamation of the Sudeten Ger-ment.
to discuss
A telephone receiver has been
be
A student, Ng Ma-fai, aged 17, was admitted to the Kowloon Hos- pital 'yesterday. suffering from centipede bite, behind the left ear,
a
mans but also of Chancellor Hitler. No indications is given as to
The cartoon which is the sub-their nature, but there is little reported stolen from the booth at received at the Boys. Scouts" camp ject of the protest had been exhibit-doubt but that it is based on a ed by Prague shops.
system of cantonisation.
The note points out that the po-Reuter.
lice allowed the cartoon to be dis- played in public in the centre of
Prague although it would have
been an easy matter for, the police
to secure removal of the cartoon.
RUNCIMAN
Since the display of the cartoon COMMUNIQUE
caused a considerable sensation among the passers-by the police!
Prague, To-day. could not have failed to notice it.
Lord Runciman's secretariat yes- The cartoon was removed on Satur- day by a Sudeten German named terday afternoon issued a communi- Worp from a shop on the Altstaed-que ter Ring. Worp was subsequently Lord Runciman assaulted by Czechs.-Trans-Ocean.
WATER IN BERLIN
STATUE
Berlin, To-day.
on the conversation which and the Foreign Office expert, Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, had with the leader of the Sudeten German Party, Konrad Henlein, yesterday.
The communique announces that the conference lasted one hour.
Details regarding the subjects dis- cussed or the outcome of the con- ference were not revealed by the communique.
When workers commenced yes-
The communique, however, an- terday morning to remove, piece by
another conference piece, the figure of the Goddess of nounces that
Victory surmounting that renown-between the members of Lord Run- ed column at the northern end of ciman's staff and the Parliamen- tary Committee of Six took place at the Siege Sallee-now almost en-
four o'clock yesterday afternoon. tirely vanished-they discovered to
of The conference was also attended their surprise that the inside the figure was partially filled with by Dr. Heidrich, of the Ministry water. It had even penetrated into for Foreign Affairs. the legs of the Goddess.
Lord Runci man's mission was represented by Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, Mr. Stopford and Mr. Henderson.
The difficult task of removing the figure was begun by taking off her
Lord Runciman was received by winged helmet. Then the head of ther Goddess was removed and after the President of the Czech Repu- this the two six-metre long wings, blic, Dr. Benes, at six o'clock.
Trans-Ocean. -Trans-Ocean,
CLOUDY, SHOWERY PUSH ALLEGED
The Royal Observatory reports Yeung Wai-ping, aged 20, a that pressure continues, highest spinster, was admitted to the Queen over the Pacific to the north east Mary Hospital yesterday suffering of Japan Depressions are situat-from injuries to the head ¦ and ed over Tongking and in the vicinity arma. It is alleged that she was of the Boning Forecast S. W pushed under moving lorry winds, moderate; cloudy, showery.
a man who has been detained; į
Conduit Road.
at Diamond Hill.
"FIRST TIME FOR FIFTY YEARS, A “Strad” cello, one of the rarest of musical instruments was sold in London recently. It. In nearly fifty years since a cello by Stradivari had been seen in the London salerooms although there had been several Strad violins. Messrs. Puttick and Simpson also had a 'cello by Nicolo Amati, who taught Stradivari his craft, so the work of master and apprentice were seen at the same, auction. Photo shows The cello by Amafi, the master, on right, and the 'celló,
the apprentices
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