HOW CZECH INDEPENDENCE
WAS SIGNED AWAY
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Paris, To-day.
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Herr Hitler forced old Professor Emil Hacha, Pre- sident of Czechoslovakia, to sign away the Czech independence are contained in the Yellow Paper issued by the French Government.
The information is based on a confidential report sent to Paris by M. Robert Coulondre, then French Ambassador to Germany.
Summoned by Herr Hitler to go to Berlin, Professor Hacha, accompanied by His Foreign Minister, M. Shvalkovski, found himself in the presence of a document drafted in its final form.
Without wasting time, Herr Hitler | decided to save his people from the and Immediately imparted to his visitors horror of sudden air bombings the information that the German finally signed the fateful document.
occupy Army had been ordered to
When leaving the room M. Shval- Prague at 9 a.m. the next day, where-kovki was heard to say: "Our nation upon he signed the document and will curse us but we have saved its left the room without another word. existence and saved our people from
Left alone with three German de- legates, Professor
and M. Hacha
10 Shvalkovski were, for the next hours, subjected to a moral torture including a threat that 100 German bombers were ready to destroy Pra- gue the next morning at 6 a.m. un- less the document was signed.
Towards the end of the discussions Professor Hacha was on the verge of collapse.
TO SAVE PEOPLE At 4.30 a.m., that is, 90 minutes before the deadline. Professor Hacha
a terrible massacre.”
M. Coulondre also describes Hitler's famous mountain retreat at Obersalz- It throws burg, and suggests that light on his mentality.
wide
It is reached, he says, by a road nine miles long which ends in a tunnel at the foot of a mountain; the tunnel is closed by heavy bronze doors.
At the end of the tunnel is a lift, which lifts visitors 350 feet up through the mountain to Hitler's (Continued at foot of next Col.)
Santa Monica (California),
To-day.
The Douglas Aircraft Company reveal that discussions have been started with the British Air Min- istry about a possible $44,000,000 order for new type 400 miles hour light attack and bombing aircraft.
an
The machines are an improved model of the "DB 7" bombers which the Douglas Company aré manufacturing for the French Air Force-Reuter.
Helsinki, To-day.
In the Salla sector the Finnish successes continue.
It is estimated that 350 Russian planes flew over Finland yester- day.
Casualties in bombing are re- and 43 ported to be 16 dend wounded.
Finnish anți-aircraft guns and chaser planes brought down seven Russian planes, and five others were probably brought down. Reuter.
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is this retreat a multi-millionaire's fanoy or a den where brigands take their rest among their accumulated treasures? aske M. Coulondre.. Is it the work of a man obsessed, for soll. tude or the work of a man who la n prey to fear? —Havas.
DEATH
Montevideo, To-day. Uruguay has rejected the Ger- man protest regarding the time limit for the Admiral Graf Spee. The Uruguayan Note recalls the Hague Convention on the subject, and refers to the report of Uruguayan experts expressing the view that 72 hours was suf- ficient time to effect repairs. Reuter.
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