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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1939.

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GERMANS

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TRYING TO

NAZIFY THE CZECHS

NOVEL BANQUET

10,000 Persons

General

GIVEN YUGOSLAV Still Under Arrest Election

REGENT

Berlin, June 5.

Wiener sausages, pea soup with lard, and mugs of beer were served Regent Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia at the dinner re- ception given in their honour last night by Herr Joachim von Ribben- trop. Reich's Foreign Minister.

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the ladies.

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Herr Esser, chief of the German tourist de-In Autumn

partment, and Gen. Daluege, chief of the Reich

London, To-day. uniformed police, had an audience with Baron von SIR Douglas Hacking, Neurath, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, chairman of the recently to discuss arrangements for bringing Conservative Party, said Czech law into line with the German.

that he saw no reason to suppose that the Gen-

They later met a group of Czech hotel keepers to discuss reciprocal arrangements whereby Czechs eral Election would be delayed further than can be induced to spend their holidays in Germany in return for German visitors in Prague.

the Autumn of this year.

common foods, usually served the soldiers, topped off in very original fashion an evening of dancing and entertainment dur- An official of the tourist depart- The frontier between the Czech It is general practice in normal ing which Fuehrer Adolf Hitler outdid himself in gallanteries. toment will remain in Prague to put provinces and Poland is now prac-time for Parliament to run four

this scheme into operation.

tically closed, on this side, and years instead of the allotted five, Abundant evidence of attempts to entry, legally or otherwise, into says Reuter's Lobby Correspon- Germanise the Czechs is available. Poland is almost impossible, Secret dent, and in the case of a dis- Compulsory summer camps will be police are guarding the border line solution of Parliament might be held for children, who will be in-about every 50 yards..

expected any time after October structed in National Socialist prin- The German army of occupation electors comes into force.

15, when the new register of ciples by resident teachers.

is becoming increasing unhappy.

Reuter's Lobby Hacha continued to President

Correspon- Growing discontent is reported dent adds that there is no rea- prove a stumbling-block to German among the ranks, composed mainly son why the Government should evtremists who wish to push on of conscripts under 21. They find not decide to have the election in with anti-Jewish laws. His signa- it impossible to fraternise with the the Autumn, provided that events ture is essential to all new mea- sures, and this he refuses to give inhabitants, and their pay of six-in the International sphere show

pence a day inadequate in a hostile signs of returning to normality.- until regulations have

country.

Reuter.. siderably modified.

The reception took place in the Hotel Kaiserhof and was brought to an

end only at 2 o'clock this morning. It began when Prince Paul danced the first waltz with the Grand Duchess of Hesse while "Princess Olga danced with the

Prince of Baden.

Herr von Ribbentrop conversed a long time with the visiting prince. But he had to leave the ball-for a considerable time when he suffer- ed an attack attributed to diabetes and had to receive an injection.

Especially remarked during last night's dinner was the fact that

been con-

It is officially admitted that there are 300 persons in a concentration camp at Pripuslau and 600 others at Unterstadt. They are employed

social barriers were let down be-building a new railway line be- tween the old nobility and the new tween Pripuslau and Deutschbrot. socialites of the Nazi elite.

After six long years of reciprocal snubbing, the two classes got to- gether and exchange social courte-

FRONTIER CLOSED

A new camp has also been open- sies,

It is believed uniformed Nazis, Stormed near Karlsbad.

are Trooper and Blackshirt, leaders, that at least 10,000 prisoners rubbing shoulders with princes prin- still in custody in- the Protectorate, -cesses, counts and countesses in be-but the silence of relatives, fearing flowered surroundings of rare reprisals, makes it difficult to ar- beauty-Havas.

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