REGULAR BATTLE OCCURS IN FALKENHAU RLY. STATION Tanks Participate After Mob Seizes Police Station
Czech Losses In Disorders Heavier Than Sudetens
Prague, To-day.
A regular battle occurred near Falkenau railway station yesterday between Sudetens and Czech troops and gendarmerie, in which tanks were reported to have participated.
This is according to Sudeten headquarters, but the Czech Government states that all was quiet in the village.
Losses suffered by the gendarmerie were from ten to fifteen, and those of the Sudetens, which have not yet been counted, are believed to have been heavier.
According to a Sudeten communi- occurred, police reinforcements ar- que, the trouble began in a fight rived on the scene in motorcars between Communists and Sudetens. from Falkenau and Zwodau They Gendarmerie, who attempted to se- immediately opened fire to which parate the disputants without using the now armed inhabitants replied. weapons, were forced to withdraw | A number of persons were killed. to the police station, where they A later report on the situation were attacked by the crowd.
in Aberspirk reaching Eger at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, says that heavy armoured cars of the Czech army are advancing from two sides against the front defended by The population seized the police 2,000 Sudeten. Germans. It is esti- station, where weapons were stored, mated that the gendarmerie has including machine-guns and grena-lost from ten to fifteen dead. The des...
A shot fired from the station drew a volley from the crowd, and finally the gerdarmerie, endeavour- ing to escape, were shot down.
HEAVY TANKS
Later, more gendarmerie arrived, and opened fire, the Sudetens re- plying. Heavy tanks are reported to have been engaged.
An official communique issued by the Czech Government, however, flatly denies the Sudeten report and states that up to 3 o'clock yes- terday afternoon, all was calm in the village where the battle is sup- posed to have occurred. !
Official quarters add that the Sudeten report must refer to the incident on Tuesday, in which four gendarmerie and two Sude- tens were killed.
23 DEAD
An official -
losses of the Sudeten Germans are considerably higher and have not yet been ascertained →→Trans-Ocean.
KING'S JOURNEY
DR. KUNDTS HODZA TALK
DOES NOT.
TAKE PLACE
Prague, To-day.
Dr. Ernst Kundt, the chief Su- . deton delegate, earlier reported to have arrived in Prague to see Dr. Milan Hodza; did not meet the Premier in the afternoon.
It is learned, in addition, that no arrangements have been made for the two leaders meeting.- Reuter.
TELFER SENT TO PRISON
The Police "Attempted Extortion sions yesterday afternoon, when Lance- Case" concluded at the Criminal Ses-
Sergeant Charles Hossack Telfer was found guilty and sentenced to twel years' hard labour.
VIOLENT BERLIN ACCUSATIONS AGAINST PRAGUE
Berlin, To-day.
Last night's German press was once again filled with violent ac- cusations against Prague.
"Der Angriff" writes: "German soi in Czecho-Slovakia drinks, in day by day the blood of its Ger- man sons, shed by miserable Czech intruders sent by Prague to drive the Germans from soil they have cultivated for cen- turies.'
After speaking of the "un- chained Czech beast," the paper concludes:
"Who would be astonished if mad dogs were slain like mad dogs? German blood has been shed on German soil by a midget nation. Lance-Sergeant Leung Chi was sen- tenced
"The German soil on which this to 18 months' imprisonment, blood has flowed, will be united while 12 months' hard labour was still more indisolubiy with Ger- imposed on Constables Mäk Kong-it.
and Sun Kui.
[man blood and soil."
Reuter.
CAN HERR HITLER STOP WHAT HE HAS STARTED?
Berlin, To-day.
The fear that Hitler may have kindled a fire in Sudetenland which he may be unable to stamp out, is uppermost to-day in Germany, where
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FROM BALMORAL official circles are hopeful that further incidents
-London. To-day.
The King left Balmoral last night for London, the change in His Majesty's plans being announc ed in an official statement issued early in the afternoon from Bucking- ham Palace, which said: "The King,
may be avoided.
There is danger that a really grave incident might lead Germany to despatch troops to protect the Sudetens, but ostensibly not to penetrate fur- ther than the predominantly Sudeten country.
23 have been broadcast states that who was proposing to travel south H.K. PASSENGERS
been killed in the past two
days, of whom 13 were Czechs and on Thursday night for the funeral the rest Sudetens. Ten of the Czech of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Con- casualties were police.
naught, has decided to proceed to London to-night in order -have further time for discussion, on the international situation with his Ministers."
In the same period, 75 were injured, including 14 Germans, while 37 were seriously injured among the police.
Meanwhile, many Sudetens in the border districts are reported to have crossed the frontier into Germany. -Reuter.
ÄNOTHER VERSION According to the version of the incident given by one of the wound ed police, says Trans-Docan, the first shot was not fired at the crowd. It was fired by one of the « police. men named Barton at officer. This officer was and had refused to give the order. to fire on the crowd. The shot prov ed fatal.
superior Slovak
"After storming the police station the crowd took possession of the firearms and ammunition stored in the ition. It included about
imunition, Fand
Shortly
to
It is not yet known whether the King will be able to return to Bal- moral on Friday night as originally planned. His decision will no doubt depend on developments in the in- ternational situation. British Wireless..
LABOUR PARTY MEETING
London, To-day. meeting of those members of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party who are in London was held läst evening, when the international situation was dis- cussed.
O
esting of the full executive the executive of the Parlia- bour Party will be held this morning.-—British Wireless.
WERE ON SHIP THAT SANK
Three Hong Kong passengers were aboard the Danish motor- ship, Nippon, when she left: Hong Kong for Antwerp recent
ly, and the
French
As far as is ties occurred as a resul mishap.
casual- of the
The reports reaching Hong Kong, merely stated that the "Nippon" had been in collision, had foundered, and that her crew had been picked up after taking to the boats.
The other vessel involved was badly damaged but did not sink.
Otherwise, a universal desire to
avoid hostilities is expressed not only by the general public but in
official circles..
There is no doubt that armed intervention would be most un- popular with the general public, who nevertheless whole-hearted- ly sympathise with the Sudetens after the inspired press accounts attacking the Czechs and holding up the Sudetens as meek and blameless.
In other respects, the atmosphere.
seem
THE KING'S CONFIDENCE
London, To-day. The King motored from Balmoral to Porth last night and before leaving by express for London, töld the station master that he hoped to be back at Balmoral by Saturday.
-Reuter.
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