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BRITAIN WILL FIGHT WARNING

America Electrified By SOLEMN New Demarche: Hitler Speech Obsolete

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.

THE INTIMATION GIVEN BY LONDON THAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE SOVIET WILL FIGHT IF CZECHO-SLOVAKIA IS IN- VADED, HAS ECLIPSED HITLER'S SPEECH, AND HAS ELEC TRIFIED HIGH QUARTERS.

Radio commentators immediately suggested that the above intimation

rendered the Hitler speech obsolete.

The speech itself caused deepening anxiety. Senator Borah, comment

ing, said: "Let them settle it among themselves," and Senator King declared: "It's an hysterical outbreak.”. Reuter.

WARNING URGED

London, To-day,

Mr. Winston Churchill last night declared that Britain, France and Russia should send a solemn warn- ing to Germany stating that in the present situation, invasion of Czecho-Slovakia by German troops would be taken by them as an act of war.-Reuter.

Failure to fulfil the promise giv- en to Germany would create the si- tuation clearly indicated by the

Fuehrer in his speech yesterday

evening. Trans-Ocean.

U.S. CRITICISM RESENTED

Berlin, To-day.

Berlin, To-day. ¡port of the Polish and Hungarian, Hitler's speech was somewhat demands.

possibility of an unprovoked at- more conciliatory than expected, The paper adds that war over tack.. even to the extent of leaving the evacuation of part of Czecho-Slova- The fulfilment of the demands in door slightly ajar for quick kia would be madness. The paper, the German memorandum within

The semi-official "Deutsche Di- negotiation.

cannot understand Britain and the stipulated time is merely the

plomatische Korrespondenz” : pu- such However, the impression prevail-France 'showing

firmness consequence of the former negotiablished shortly before President ing in foreign political circles here against the Polish and Hungarian tions which conducted for the ls that Germany will march into minority demands-Reuter. Sudeten territory on October 1.

purpose of arriving at a peaceful Roosevelt's telegram to Chancellor solution of the Sudeten German Hitler reached Berlin, a strong

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STICKS TO TERMS IF CZECHS DO NOT problem.

YIELD REICH WILL BE PROVOKED!

In Paris, official quarters com- V ment that the Fuehrer has not burned his boats, but they never theless recognise that Hitler sticks to the exact terms, of the latest memorandum, with its time limit.

Some well-informed sources re- mark that after removing the word "war" and the rhetorical matter, the speech does not exclude all hope of a peaceful settlement. ›

Berlin, To-day. Confirming the reception of an official declaration from the British Foreign Office that in the event of German attack on Czecho- Others emphasise its intransi- gence and place little confidence in Slovakia, France would be obliged its assurances to Britain and to rush to the aid of Prague and

France. Reutër.

GERMANY CANNOT UNDERSTAND FIRMNESS

Berlin, To-day.

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that Great Britain as well as Soviet

sia would stand by the side of

Russia

France, it is declared in informed circles that an unprovoked attack on Czecho-Slovakia is not in question.

The German newspapers contend that Hitler's memorandum is mere- ly carrying into effect, and does not go beyond, the Anglo-French man territory was proposed in the The cession of the Sudeten Ger-

plan.

British declaration and had also the

One paper asks if the historic sanction of the British, French and The meeting between Hitler and Mr. Czechoslovak Governments. Chamberlain is to be lost in wran- Reichs Government regards this as gles in the British Parliament and a binding promise which, as such, French Councils.

formed the basis for the Godesberg hat Hitler at the conferences.

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