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BRINK OF WAR

Warning That Hitler Will Make New Impossible Demands

LITTLE DOUBT TROOPS WILL TROUBLE AT

ENTER CZECHO-SLOVAKIA HOME FOR MR. IT IS NOW CERTAIN THAT OMINOUS EVENTS WILL OCCUR IN CHAMBERLAIN

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London, To-day.

CENTRAL EUROPE, POSSIBLY WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY-

FOUR HOURS.

With the arrival of the Prague Assured of the backing of Italy, Poland and Hungary, Hitler is now ex- Government's acceptance of the pected to endeavour to bring about total extinction of Czecho- Slo-Anglo-French plan, there exists no. vakia as a sovereign state, either by diplomatic or by military means. further obstacle to the meeting to- From Godesberg, where Hitler and Mr. Chamberlain are meeting this day between the Prime Minister afternoon, comes a despatch from the correspondent of the London and the German Chancellor at "Daily Telegraph," quoted by Reuter, saying that there can be little Godesberg. doubt that German troops will enter Czecho-Slovakia. The correspondent adds that it is understood that Hitler will probably now propose to the British Prime Minister the complete disappearance of Czecho-Slovakia as a sovereign state, the establishment of German control and the removal of President Edouard Benes from office.

NAZI FLAG OVER CZECH TOWNS.

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Selb, To-day "The Nazi flag is flying over Czecho-Slovak towns in Sudetenland,”| declares Reuter's correspondent on the German-Czech frontier. THE CZECH POLICE CHIEF AT EGER SAID TO REUTER, WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN HIS CHEEKS: “I HAVE NO MORE AUTHORITY HERE."

An excited crowd of Sudetens stormed the Czech customs house at Asch, disarmed the officials and led them into Germany. Reuter's correspondent watched the crowd tear up concrete embedd- ed blue, white and red posts demarcating the frontier, and tear down the golden arms of the Czecho-Slovak Republic,

The Henleinist ordnance corps seized the Asch police station and

locked up the police.

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Reuter's correspondent, motoring ALLEGED CZECH

from Eger to Asch, was held up in

a dark wood by four- tream out

down across the road. Twenty DYNAMITING PLAN

rounded the car.

uniforms sur-

Router's correspondent took cover in a ditch while the Henlein- tate held up, another car. Finally they allowed the correspondent to proceed.

GERMANS CROSS BORDER The streets of Asch are crowded with people wearing swastika arm- lets and cheering Hitler.

Many Germans, some in black And others ing

rontier

enacted

rometh

Yesterday lish alarming_re Sudeten German region particular- from Karlsbad, Marienbad and Franzensbad, which describe alleged preparations by Czech extremists for dynamiting hotels, Kuraslons and public buildings prior to sur- Tender the Sudeten German re- gion to the Reich.

News declares

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iting

The flight of the Prime Minister will be made in a super Lockheed

machine which established the re- cord between London and Stock- holm last Sunday, and will be ac-

companied by another Lockheed plane.

The fact that the Legal Adviser vert the towns into a heap of ruins to the Foreign Office, Sir William before being surrendered to the Malkin, is accompanying the Prime Germans.

Minister is taken here as indica- In Eibenberg, relatives of. Czech tion that part of the time at officials from the entire surrounding Godesberg will be devoted to draw-

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