CUSTOMS BUILDING IN SCHWADERBACH
RUSHED
Two Czechs Killed In Latest Grave Incident
CABINET IN CONFERENCE
WITH CHIEFS OF STAFFS
London, To-day.
ATMOSPHERE GROWS STEADILY WORSE HOUR BY HOUR
Prague, To-day.
The tension in Czecho-Slovakia is growing more
There will be a meeting of the Cabinet this morning from which The the only absentee is likely to be the Dominions Minister, Lord Stanley.
Lord Hailsham, Lord President of the Council, who has been abroad, returned to London yesterday, and called on the Prime Minister; and
RUMANIA TO PERMIT PASSAGE OF RED ARMY
"Geneva, To-day."
There is every reason to believe:
acute with each hour and the atmosphere is still further deteriorating as the news of further that the Russians, and the Ruman grave incidents spreads.
latest of these incidents is reported from Schwaderbach which lies in the close proximi- ty to the German frontier. Here a group of 20 Sudeten Germans was fired at by Czech gen- darmes and frontier guards.
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fans here, have reached an agree ment for the Bangé, of Soviet troops across Runfanig in the event of a German attack on Cres choslovakia.
- The same quarters, suggested: that the Soviet will be,. corridor five miles wide..
Earl de la Warr, Lord Privy Seal. It appears from first reports reaching here that MARTIAL LAW
is returning by air from Geneva to attend the meeting. Earl de la Warr will be able to inform his colleagues of the nature and results of his conversations with the various heada of delegations. to the League As- sembly.
In
after the shots had been fired, the Sudeten Ger- mans rushed the Customs Building and having gained access, came to blows with the Czech customs' officials and gendarmes.
the course of this fight one Czech customs official and one Czech gendarme were killed and se- veral Sudeten Germans injured. The affray occurred so close to the German frontier that one of the shots fired struck the Customs house on the German side of the frontier.
EFFECTIVE
Prague, To-day.
It is reported that order now pr vails in distriets under martial law, the inhabitants being confined to their homes, and only persons with police permits are allowed in the
streets.
He will return to Geneva imme- diately after the Cabinet meeting.
Following yesterday afternoon'ą ministerial consultations, there was another meeting of ministers. at 10: Downing Street in the evening at which the Prime Minister; Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Ex-
Martial Law has also been ex chequer and Home Secretary were The situation in Schwaderbach however, have occurred spontan- tended to the districts, of Tachau joined by the First Lord of the assumed. very ugly forms and the eously immediately at the conclu- and Bischofsteinita, it is rem
In Admiralty, the War Minister and intervention of the functionaries sion of the Fuehrer's speech.
of the Sudeten German Party pre- most places, church bells were Secretary for Air.
The Runciman Mission hits The latter returned urgently from vented the occurrence of further ringing and the sirens of factories tablished connection with the a visit of inspection to shadow fac- incidents. The Sudeten functionar- howled. The demonstrators did not deten German Party and, in ac tories in the Coventry area to aties took the Czech officials and only sing the German national an-dance with wishes from the Pra tend the meeting.
their wives under their protection thems but entire streets were sud- Government, is endeavouring to ar with Swastika range for direct negotiations → First Sea Lord, Admíral Sir Ro- and escorted them from Schwader-denly decorated
flags Trans-Ocean.
Trans-Ocean: ger Backhouse, Chief of Imperial bach to Graslitz. General Staff, General Viscount It is reported from Tachau, in Gort, and Chief of Air Staff, Air Bohemia, that following a demon- the Sudeten German Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, were pre- stration of sent at the conference which lasted Party on the market-square which had been carried through in per over an hour.-British Wireless.
fect order, someone without warn- ing fired shots at the persons who were going peacefully home. Three persons were killed outright and a large number were wounded and had to be conveyed to hospital.
ITALY'S CONTRIBUTION
Rome, To-day.
An official Italian statement in the "Diplomatic Information" re- ferring to the Czech problem, states that there are two solutions to the problem.
Firstly, to give the Sudetens the faculty of disposing of their own destiny and, secondly, of denying them this right.
To give the Sudetens the possi- bility of secession is to choose path of justice and peace, Reuter
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In the meantime it is learnt that Dr. Krofta, the Czech Foreign Min- ister, who had planned to leave for Geneva yesterday, has cancelled his journey owing to the deterioration of the situation. The Czech Gov- ernment. promulgated martial law in the districts of Eger, Neudeck, Pressnitz, Elborgen and Kaaden, and later on extended it to include Carlsbad, Falkenau and Krumau.
Owing to the interruption of the telephone lines it is not possible to obtain in Prague a full account of thega demonstrations. They appear,
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