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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1988.

DR. BENES' RESIGNATION Whole Basis Of Czech Existence Changed

His Remaining HUNGARIANS Might Be Obstacle PREPARED TO

To Progress

Prague, To-day.

BE REASONABLE

CZECH DEFENCE SYSTEM NOT WHOLLY LOST

Prague, To-day.

LONDON, TO-DAY. DEEP INTEREST WAS DIS-

CZECHO - SLOVAKIAN

IN

DE-

Dr. Edouard Benes, in a letter tendering his resign- The Hungarian note PLAYED IN THE HOUSE OF ation from the Presidency of Czecho-Slovakia, to Czecho-Slovakia was COMMONS YESTERDAY states that the eventful three years of his Pre- not worded as an ultima- THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE sidency have culminated in the very sad events tum, but did envisage a FENCES ARE PREJUDICED of these last days.

reply by to-day.

BY THE TRANSFERENCE OF These historic events have changed the whole basis Nevertheless, Hungarian official TERRITORY TO GERMANY.

The Prime Minister, asked for of our existence, and he had to consider serious-quarters are inclined to take a rea-

sonable attitude, recognising the the British interpretation of the ly what should be his duty under the changed necessity of letting the new Czech word "installation in the conditions.

Government get into its stride. Munich agreement, said that the The Hungarian Minister in international commission 'would Prague, who left yesterday for decide this.

The British Government was of the opinion that it should only in- clude permanent fixtures, as dis- tinct from movable objects, though railway rolling-stock and cattle should be regarded as movable ob- [jects.

“Circumstances have changed so completely that I feel that my remaining in office may constitute an obstacle to the new conditions which now confront the state.

"We have now constituted a new government, which will be a gov- ernment of calm and order, eco- nomic efforts and social recon- struction, a government which will aim. chiefly at internal develop- ment, and I am convinced it will succeed in its efforts.

NOT EVADING RESPONSIBILITY

GERMANY SAYS

"AT LAST"

press

Budapest, is expected back

morrow.

to-

Meanwhile, a somewhat seri- ous incident is reported from the. Hungarian frontier, where a band of several Hungarian" regulars crossed into Czech territory and attacked the Mr. Chamberlain said it was im- Feledince municipal buildinga..possible to estimate the value of the Some shots were fired but it is plants and installations handed not known whether there were any over until the frontiers are deter- casualties...

mined.

NO OFFERS" ACCEPTED

NOT INTACT

Berlin, To-day. "I realise that in these

Seeing that the German new

It is known that the Poles and Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, Secretary conditions it is essential for me to had long accustomed its readers to Hungarians have made approaches for War, answered similarly as re- withdraw from office.

regard Dr. Benes as one of the to the Slovak autonomists, but gards the value of arms and muni- leading exponents of a policy which hitherto there has been no inclinations. drew its sustenance from Versail-tion on the part of the Slovaks to The Prime Minister said that the les, Geneva and Moscow, it is not accept foreign offers.

whole of the Czech defences were surprising that his resignation is According to information from not being handed over intact. positively greeted with a sigh of Slovak sources, the autonomists He said they were built with the relief.

will only be satisfied with complete assistance of French engineers, and autonomy and a parliament of embodied the Maginot Line design, their own. Reuter.

"That does not mean that I evade my responsibility in this difficult situation, or that I am leaving the vessel in the storm.

government both in external and internal affairs.”

At last, is the laconic comment of the "Berliner (Lokalanzeiger."

Establishment of neighbour-

"I only wish to facilitate de- velopment of the policy of the ly relations of any sort, declares the "Berliner Tageblatt," After thanking his colleagues had become impossible as long as for their co-operation and wishing Dr. Benes remained head of the them success, Dr. Benes concludes: Czecho-Slovak state.

What has now happened is not "I am fully convinced that a

the outcome of a decision taken by better period......... is now......... before us, successful labour and prosperity one man. He has been swept away for the new state and for all our by the uprising of nations. There -Czecho-Slovak people."--Renter.

FINAL BENES BROADCAST

Prague, To-day.

is nothing tragic about this ending, for creation and maintenance of the Czecho Slovak, state was far from being a tragic blunder, it was

"

a deliberate lie and a fraud.

Trans-Ocean.

GERMANY AND COLONIES

Rome, To-day,

SOVIET DOUBTS VALUE OF PACT WITH FRANCE

and added that most of the areas occupied by the Germans between October 1 and 7 lle outside the Czecho-Slovak defences.

· He understood that the removal guns and other material from the ceded zones was being consider- ed by the international commission.

-Reuter.

Moscow, To-day. GEN. SIROVY'S Moscow," which is published BROADCAST ON

The semi-official Journal de

in the

French language and reflects the

views of the Soviet Foreign Com-POLICY

missariat, discusses in a leading article the question of French for eign policy after the Munich Con ference.

Prague, To-day... After the resignation of Pre- sident Edouard Benes had been unanimously accepted by the Council Sirovy, the acting nounced Fina

General

an-

the

cy would the

the

and

In a broadcast to the nation Dr. Benes declared that he intended to resign after the Munich agreement,

The paper is sceptical regarding but he felt it advisable to wait That Africa provides room en- the future of the Franco-Soviet until a strong government was ough for colonizing activities by all Pact, and asks what value can be civilised nations, was the gist of a attributed to French obligations re- constituted.

lecture delivered by Professor Obst, sulting from the pact now that new Governme “We did all we could to reach an of Breslau, before yesterday's ses- France has lost practically all her

be understanding, but our internal sion of the Volta Congress here...

positions in Central Europe. problem developed into an interna- It was first of all necessary, in- The paper bitterly complains that tional crisis, and the four great sisted the German Professor, for the French Government without Powers reached a decision without the nations to agree among them-consulting Moscow, "annulled the our being consulted.

selves with regard to

Ways and pact between Czecho-Slovakia and means of opening up the African the Soviet Union" by international Continent and helping it to ad- guarantee of the remnant of the necessary to cult "I shall not say a word of criti-vance to a high stage of "culture." Czecho-Slovak state given at Mu- with our eighbours

Gene He concluded by suggesting the nich.

Sirovy added that he eism. History will judge,

"The nation is giving its sup-creation of an international insti-

The paper points out that the hoped there wou port heroically in the ordeal. The tute in which all colonizing coun-pact between Czecho-Slovakia and ment. state must find itself once more. tries would be represented. Trans- the Soviet Union constituted We must recast our policy, and Ocean.

tegral part of the Franco-Soviet Sovi there is now no cause of conflict

Treaty, and was one of the most with our neighbours,

on Mrs. Talmer, residing at No. 8 portant elementa ("Our state in the future will be Homantin Street, reported that European region: more homogeneous and will have a cat burgler entered her residence All that greater confidence in the

HISTORY WILL JUDGE'

fa future."

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