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ROOSEVELT TRIES AGAIN

Urges International PRES. BENES Conference To Settle GIVES SLOVAKS Troubles In Europe

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, ADDRESSING HERR HITLER PERSONAL

LY, HAS MADE A NEW APPEAL FOR PEACE, SUGGESTING AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO SETTLE THE TROUBLES IN EUROPE.

GUARANTEES

WHICH

· PRAGUE, TO-DAY.

ALL

FOR IN

THE SLOVAKS HAVE RECEIV- ED FROM PRESIDENT BENES THE PROMISE THAT

IS NECESSARY A TRANQUIL LIFE THE CZECHO-SLOVAK REPUB- LIG WILL BE GRANTED, DE CLARES THE SLOVAK DEPUTY AND LEADER OF THE SLOVAK PARTY, DR

The message acknowledges Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's mes- AUTONOMIST

sage of September 26, and says:

“The question before the world to-day, Mr. Chancellor, is not a question of errors of judgment or injustices committed in the past. It is a question of the fate of the world to-day and to-morrow.

“The world asks of us who at this moment are the heads of nations, the supreme capacity to achieve the destinies of nations without forcing upon them as a price the mutilation and death of millions of citizens. "HANDS OFF" WARNING

London, To-day.

It is rumoured in diplomatic quarters that Sir Horace Wilson brought back to London yes- terday from Herr Hitler, a virtual "Hands Off" "ultimatum" in reply to the British memoran- dum warning Germany that an attack on Czecho-Slovakia would inevitably bring France, and therefore Britain and Russia to arms against her.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S STATEMENT THAT HE CAN SEE NO

PURPOSE IN ATTEMPTING FURTHER MEDIATION AT THE PRESENT MOMENT HAS CAUSED A DEEPENING SENSE OF GLOOM. — OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT..

MOBILISATION DECISION

DENIED.

Berlin, To-day.

Foreign news agency reporte

emphatically deny reports circulat- ed by foreign news agencies to the effect that Italy has ordered general mobilisation. värde

It is declared that the spreading the effect that the Garman Govern- of malicious tendencious reports of ment intends to order mobilisation which the report in question was —were deeply to be to-day at 2 p.m. are emphatically characteristic "denied,” by the German News regretted particularly - at the pre-

sent moment. Trans-Ocean. Agency.

"BATTLE FOR PEACE

· NOT-YET ́ ENDED”.

Paris, To-day. remter, Mr Dala-

ressi

The reports had it that the Ger- man_mobilisation was dependent upon whether

dnes-

pal had or had

accepted

The

ITALY DENIES MILITARY

MOHLTRATION

Authoritative Quarte

almly.

progress,

he declared, assuring the press that endeavours for a peaceful solution had by no means been exhausted.

(Continued on Page så).

SIDOR.

The leader of the Slovak Peoples

Party, Dr Tiso has received assu- rances to the same effect, it

stated.

President Benes has promised

arrange for a new local government

for Slovakia.

Dr. Sidor stated that the Slovaks

demanded nothing more than their Just rights, and were content, these granted, to live in the Slovak State.

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