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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1989.

GOERING MAY VISIT LONDON

LONDON, JULY 30.

WITH AN EYE TO RESUMP- TION OF ANGLO-GERMAN ECO- NOMIC NEGOTIATIONS, REICH- SFUEHRER ADOLF HITLER AND BARON KEMSLEY, BRITISH PRESS LORD, ON THURSDAY DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY

CZECHS CLAMOUR FOR "MUNICH POWERS' PROTECTORATE"

EX-CZECH OFFICERS LEAVE GDYNIA

Warsaw, July 29.

One hundred and fifty officers, N.C.O.'s and soldiers of the form- er Czechoslovakia Army were among the passengers on board the Polish steamer Chrobry

South America to-day. The ves- sel also carried a large num ber of civilian Czech refugees, who were seen off at the dock by cipated in a pious pilgrimage to the a huge crowd of sympathisers. A revolutionary scheme to retomb of King Wenceslas, Bohemia's men were in uniform. They will Most of the former Czech Army

Vigorous Opposition To Germanisation which sailed from Gdynia for

Of Czechia

Prague, July 30,

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPru Valley Bus

FLEMING ROAD

OF HAVING FIELDMÅRSHAL move Bohemia and Moravia from HERMANN GOERING, REICH'S under Herr Hitler's rule and place patron saint. The ceremony ended land at Boulogne-sur-Mer when AIR MINISTER AND FOUR-YEAR it under a "Munich Protectorate" with the crowd fervently singing the vessel stops over in that PLAN DIRECTOR, VISIT LON- to be exercised by Britain, France, the Czech national anthem, "King port. The "Chrobry" is carrying DON BEFORE DECEMBER, CON- Italy and Germany, is finding in-

Wenceslas.”. -Havas.

1,400 passengers in all-Haves. SERVATIVE QUARTERS SAID creasing, support in Czech quarters TO-DAY.

throughout the four-months-old Baron Kemsley, proprietor of the tween the Czechs and Germans in Reich's Protectorate. Tension be- "Sunday Times" and "Daily Bohemia and Moravia is constantly: Sketch," conferred with the Fuehrer growing. Germans themselves ad- at Bayreuth, Bavarian town, during mit the difficulties they the visit that he paid Germany in acceptance of a special invitation from Dr. Otto Dietrich, head of the German Press Bureau.

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are en- MOST SENSATIONAL BARGAIN IN THEATRICAL HISTORY !

countering in administering this land, whose people are rabidly patriotic and generally hostile to the Reich's dominion.

All decisions taken by the Ger- the Czechs to be contrary to their man authorities are considered by rights of national autonomy, A Na- tional Solidarity Party was ginally destined to bring about rap- prochement between the two peo- ples in the new Protectorate. It proved a failure. Then efforts were

ori-

Fieldmarshal Goering's would, if made, serve to resume economic discussions held here by Mr. Helmuth Wohltat, Reich's eco- nomic expert who recently visited London, and Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, The possibility is wholly dependent on the international situation, Conser-made to create a Committee for vative quarters continued.

IMPOSSIBLE NOW

Czecho-German Entente. These ef- forts, too, proved futile. Many ques- tions seem incapable of solution.

Thus, the Reich believes is neces- Only if the political situation sary to keep Sudeten officials in of- were eased would the German Air fice in Bohemia and Moravia be Minister and Four-Year plan Com-cause they are the only Germans missioner be able to make the trip who to British. Of importance, there- the fore, was the development of the German-Polish

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know language.

the

country and The Czechs rebelling .because they relationship they allege these officials to be tak- said Herr Hitler and Baron Kem-ing advantage of their position to sley are understood to have agreed obtain personal vengeance for ills that Fieldmarshal Goering's visit they claim to have suffered while would be "impossible," under pre- under Czech rule. sent circumstances.

Another source of much resent- Baron Kemsley returned this ment was the German authorities' evening from Bayreuth, together action an introducing bilingualism with Lady Kemsley, who accom-in the autonomous administrations. panied him on his trip to the Reich. of the Protectorate. The Germans contended this system was neces- Although it was stated when he sary to facilitate communication departed from London that he was between the outlying Sudeten-staff- on a secret mission for the Britished bureaux and the central au- Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Cham-thorities. The Czechs revolt against berlain, the official reason was that what they declare is the systė-

he wished to discuss exchanges of matic Germanisation" of their coun- political articles between German try. newspapers. and the "Sunday Times" and Daily Sketch."-Havas,

CARTOON EXHIBITION

An interesting collection of war- time cartoons and caricatures has been opened on the 1st floor of the Hong Kong Hotel under the aus- pices of the Chinese Cartoonists As- sociation. The exhibition will re- main open until 6 p.m. to-morrow.

The cartoons and wood-blocks all reflect the spirit of China strug- gling against her aggressor, and al- though 8 some are (deliberately) crudely drawn they generate strong feelings in the mind of the beholder.

One in particular, a modernist creation based on the theme "Stop Japan,"

"with its border of Soviet- French - British - American flags, would make an extraordinarily ef- fective poster for campaigns in Europe and America

CZECH MASSES HAVE ONE

HOPE

Among the Czechs, no one, not even those who were pro-Hitler before the Protectorate, now ex- pects relations between the two dif- ferent peoples in Bohemia and Moravia ever to be normalised,

The masses have only one hope, frequently voiced, and this is that "After the new war, this country will be delivered from German do- mination and will be re-establish as the Czechoslovakia of old.”

The whole situation further complicated by the fact that the rights of the Czechs in the German Protectorate never were defined and therefore there is no standard to which may be compared obser- vance or non-observance of pledges,

Havas.

PILGRIMAGE TO WENCESLAS TOMB

Prague, July 81. The persistence of the deeply rooted national sentiment among the Czech population was geen yes- terday when thirty thousand parti-i

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