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PRAGUE, TO-DAY.
"THE ANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS CONSTITUTE A FUR- THER STEP IN THE DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN CRISIS BUT THEY ARE NOT YET THE LAST WORD."
This significant sentence ended a broadcast from Prague yesterday ap- pealing for calm, but early this morning it was announced that the British recommenda tions had been accepted.
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A meeting of Czech Ministers yesterday discussed the situation in a session lasting an hour. The Cabinet was called immediately after the Bri- tish and French Ministers had called at the Palace to inform President Benes of the recommendations of their Governments, and went into session under Dr. Benes.
It was clear that the Ministers faced the difficult choice of dismem- berment of an important section of the country or possible ex- tinction, and it was feared that refusal to agree to the Anglo- French recommendations would mean disaster.
Nobody seemed to believe that Soviet aid would save the issue.
Reuter.
SHAMEFUL BETRAYAL, SAYS LABOUR
London, To-day.
Paris, To-day.
NEGOTIATIONS
Berlin, To-day.
1.
Emphasising that the hour of revenge had come and that peace in Sudetenland would be restored with weapons in their hand (referring to the Sudeten "free corps"), Herr Sebekow- sky, the Sudeten press chief, addressing the Dresden rally yesterday, also remarked that it was too late for negotiations. He regretted that Paris and London "had not yet seen
MR. ATTLEE AT through the two-faced game of
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It was reported last night that
London, To-day. the Anglo-French proposals were Mr. C. R. Attlee, leader of the not discussed in detail at yester- Opposition, and Mr. Arthur Green- day's Cabinet, which only agreed wood visited No. 10, Downing that they should be sent to Street last night at the invitation Prague.
of the Prime Minister in order that he might inform them of the posi- tion.
Reservations are reported to have been made by M. Mandel, M. Reynaud, M. Queuille and M. Campinchi, all of whom, however, are re- ported to have agreed to postpone detailed discussion pending Prague's reply. The London compromise is re- garded in authoritative circles as the best arrangement in the cir- cumstances, taking into account all the political and military fac- tors involved...
Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Liberal parliamentary party, was also received by the Prime Minister last evening. British Wireless.
COST OF LIVING
Prague."
The speech was broadcast all over Germany, and overseas.
Reuter
VIOLENCE IN PALESTINE
London; To-day.
A telegram from the High Com- missioner for Palestine received at the Colonial Office states that a Bri- Jaffa, tish soldier was stabbed in His condition is not serious.
The National Council of La- bour has issued a statement saying that desirous of main- `taining peace, it views with dismay the "reported Anglo- French proposals for dismem-
The Ministry of Labour cost of proposals living index at September 1 was berment of Czecho - Slovakia
sacrifices, unchanged from the month before day. under the brutal threat ofthey grant substantial guarantees and one per cent. higher than a
armed force by Nazi Germany without prior consultation with the Czech. Government, which is a shameful betrayal of a peaceful and democratic people and a dangerous precedent for the future."
The Council has invited re- presentatives of French labour movements to a conference in London to-day on the pro- posals.-Reuter.
It is felt that if the | require great Czech
to the new state, which are re- garded as of such importance that it is hoped they will lead Czecho- Slovakia to accept the proposals as a whole. Reuter.
TWO HOUR MEETING-
Prague, To-day. The Czech Cabinet sat two hours to frame a reply to the British and French Governments. The session was held in the
London, To-day.
An Arab police sergeant and one of the Jewish supernumeraries · pre-- viously injured have since died.
An Arab police recruit was shot and wounded in Jerusalem yester-
Armed men burnt down the cus- toms shed at Gaza railway station year ago.
Wages changes reported to the last night and another gang robbed Ministry of Labour in the first two Government officials in Beer- eight months of this year are es- sheba of their arms.-British timated to have resulted in a net Wireless. increase of about £262,000 a week
in full time wages of 2,380,000 work-people and a net decrease, of
about £28,600 in those of 123,000. IL DUCE'S VISIT TO
-British Wireless.
Palace under the presidency of DR. KUNDT CALLS
Dr. Benes, the President.Reu- ter.
CZECHS DECIDE TO ACCEPT.
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The Czech Gabinet meeting cuss the present political situation. had arrived in the village to wel-
It is learned that the Hungar-ended at 12.45 this morning, and
Regent, Admiral Horthy, is meets again visiting Herr Hitler to-day at Reuter, Berchtesgaden,
It is reported that AdmiralThe sale of Horthy will ask.
Herr Hitler an Chamberlain for Hu torial claims in Oze
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