1938-09-16 — Page 7

MARTIAL LAW EXTENDED IN SUDETEN AREAS

Czechs At Present Masters Of Situation

Two Thousand

Attack Post Office

At Bensen

Prague, To-day.

Martial law has been extended to Reichenberg, Rumburg and Schluckenau, in addition to the areas where it had been previously enforced. Official reports indicate that there is considerable unrest in the Sudeten areas, but this evidently has nowhere assumed serious proportions, and the Czech Government seems to be master of the situation.

An official communique issued last night gives a

list of incidents.

Seventy armed Sudetens at

Warmitadtesu surrounded the po- SOVIET HOSTILE

lice station and captured and roughly handled the inmates, but the arrival of troops restored order.

In another incident, 2,000 Sudetens attacked the post office at Bensen and cut the telephone wires. They were dispersed by police with truncheons.

A large crowd made a demon-

OVER PREMIER'S

ACTIONS

Moscow, To-day.

The official Soviet news agency

stration at Ramburg but were publishes distinctly hostile com- quickly scattered by the police.

At Schonlinde, an attempt to create disorder was suppressed without bloodshed.

At Warmsdorf, 1,000 Sudetens who tried to cross the frontier into Germany were stopped and

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WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD BROKEN BY JOHN COBB

Bonneville Salt Flats,

(Utah), To-day.

ment on Mr. Chamberlain's visit to

Chancellor Hitler, saying that an-

nouncement of the British Premier's

intention not only caused the grea- est excitement in England but is generally regarded in British poli- tical circles, irrespective of political. views, as the capitulation of Eng- land to Germany.

Mr. Chamberlain's journey to Berchtesgaden had awakened in all democratic countries the fear that the policy hitherto pursued by the British Government will be revers- ed and no comforting assurances by British official quarters could dissi- pate this anxiety.-Trans-Ocean.

TENSE

John Cobb, the British racing EXCITEMENT

motorist, yesterday broke the

world's land speed record recently

set up by Capt. George Eyston. Driving his 2,500-H. P. 1

IN GERMANY

Berlin, To-day.

Herr Konrad Henlein's procla-

Visitors to Falmouth are taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the Finnish four-masted barque "Pommern" which recently ar- rived from Australia. (Fox Copyright, By Air Mai).

GERMAN AIR

PATROLS OVER SECRET ZONES

BERLIN, TO-DAY,

TO PREVENT AEROPLANES CROSSING PROHIBITED

GIONS ON - THE FRONTIER, SPECIAL

Cobb averaged 850.20 miles an hour mation, calling for the return of AEROPLANES WILL for the measured mile in a tim

the Sudeten German districts to THEM BEGINNING ON 10.28 seconds.

Germany, Mr. Chamberlain's visit BER 20. Cobb later averaged 863.29 miles to Berchtesgaden and a continual an hour in 10.29 seconds for the stream of reports of attacks on northward run, and 347.16 miles an Sudetens, are keeping the Ger- hour in 10,47 seconds for the south-man people in a state of tense ex-

citement. ward run.

For the measured kilometre, his average times were 850.07 m.p.h in 6.89 second for the northward run, and 352.82 m.p.h. in 6.84 sec- onds for the sout ward run.

Capt, Byston axpected to try

to-day Re and regain thes

Newspaper offices are being| bealeged for news, but the upper, moet feeling" continues to be an abhorrence of war,

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HUNGARIAN APPEAL TO MR. CHAMBERLAIN

Budapest, To-day.

The Hu

self-dete

Simultaneously,

the

proclamation discovers If a police aeroplane ́d another aeroplane in the region, the has been issued asking world sym- intruder will be warned by a shot pathy for Hungarian claims. producing a trail of smoke.

The proclamation must have been issed with the approval of the

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If the aeroplane does not land Government, and it is noteworthy mmediately, if possible on a flying-that it was issued when all Hun field and if the flyingfield is outside garians are looking to Berchtesga Herr Henlein's proclamation is the prohibited area, it will be fired den, and are more than ever convinc- described as the cry of a people on and, if necessary, made to crash ed of the realisation of Hungary's in distress which cannot be con- to the earth, an official announce 20-year-old dream of a reunited

ment states-Reuter. sidered lightly.

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Hungary