CZECHS MAKE REQUEST OF SUDETENS
Prague, Yesterday.
The Czechoslovak Government last evening broadcast a proclama- tion addressed to the Sudeten Ger- mans, announcing the cession the Sudetenland to the Reich.
The proclamation
Sudeten Germans, red:
Control
of
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the regions to be ceded will be transferred by the Czechoslovak authorities directly to the Ger- `man authorities...
It
As long as this has not done, and Czechoslovak sovereignty
in Czechoslovak law continues these regions. The Czech people have made a great sacrifice. has renounced property which has been in: its possession for 1,000 years, because it wished to avoid war that would spread over to you, your women, your children and your homeland.
KING'S BROADCAST
TO NATION
London, To-day.
The King, in a message to the nation from Buckingham Palace on the recent crisis, says:
The time of anxiety is past and we have been able to-day to offer our thanks to the Almighty for His mercy in sparing us the horror of war.
"I would like now to thank the men and women of this country for their calm resolve during these critical days, and for the readi- ness with which they responded to the different calls made upon them.
"After the magnificent efforts of the Prime Minister in the cause of peace, it is my fervent hope that a new era of friendship and prosperity is dawning be tween the peoples of the world." -Reuter.
Moscow, To-day.
The President of the Supreme This imposes upon you the duty Council of the Soviet Union has ap- Nicolas Dulganin, vice to respect the great spirit of self-pointed sacrifice on part of the Czech peo-president of the Council of Peoples' ple. Our army will do its duty and Commissaries of the Soviet Union.. co-operate in the execution of the
At the same time, Dulganin necessary formalities. Don't make the fulfilment of this duty too dif- been made chairman of the ficult, as far as this concerns you.ministrative Council of the -Trans-Ocean.
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THE CHINA MAIDE
Indian Medical Unit Arrives
In Hankow
Hankow, To-day.
Sent by the Indian Congress Party, the Indian medi- cal unit has arrived here from Hong Kong by truck instead of by train.
It will remain in Hankow for a week or ten days, and will then proceed to whichever front it is ordered.
The party, which is now incorporated with the Chin- ese Red Cross as "Curative Unit No. 15,” is composed of Doctors Atal, Kontnis, Makerjee, Cholker and Basu.
They have now been supplemented, Haldane, and Miss Freda Utley, au- by fifteen Chinese dressers and thor, and economist.
nurses.
The unit brought with it an bulance and modern equipment cluding 54 cases of medicine.
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Dr. Atal told correspondents: am-"How long we stay in China de- inpends on the accuracy of the Ja-
panese aviators!
GANDHI'S INTEREST
"I interviewed Gandhi before I would left India. I told him we Madame Chiang Kai-shek has in-stay until the end of the war, and vited the group to tea, and Miss if we were slaughtered by the Ja- well-known |panese, another unit would take our has Agnes Smedley, the Ad-writer, introduced them to thirty place." State foreign correspondents, including Mrs. Haldane, wife of Professor
Dr. Atal, who is grey-haired and bitter regarding the horrors of the hostilities, added: "I saw a horrible aight in the village of Yoyang, be- tween Changsha and Hankow, which was bombed two hours before our arrival.
FORMERLY IN SPAIN
"Rows of houses had been flat- tened to the ground, and I saw people extricating dead women from the debris."
Dr. Atal left Spain, where he served with the Indian National Brigade, in February, and offered his services to China.
"The Indian people are most sympathetic with China's just cause. This is apparent on all sides," he re- marked-Reuter.
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QUEEN'S ROAD ATTACK
A brutal attack on an 18-year- old Chinese youth, Yun. Yu, was made by three men, armed with daggers, last night outside No 236, Queen's Road Central."
The youth was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital is a serious condition.
No, arrests have yet been made.
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