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THE

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WEDNESDAY, MAY TELEGRAPH,

1938.

To

Czechoslovakia Fiercely Determined

SALVAGING CHINESE GUNBOAT Maintain Her Freedom

IN THE YANGTSE RIVER

JAPANESE NAVAL VESSELS salvaging a Chinese gun- boat at Chinkiang, about 10 miles down the Yangtse River from Nanking. The vessel had been sunk by aerial bombs.

HopeDiamondGlamour Girl Seeks £5 Job

New York.

SNAPSHOTS

remarkable sequence of accidents.

The eldest boy, age seven, accident-

with a knite and killed

him. The

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(Editor's Note: The following article, explaining Czecho- slovakia's position in the recent shift of alignments in Central Europe, was written by Joseph Martinck, assistant editor-in-chief Martinok was formerly of the newspaper Pravo Lidu in Prague. editor of a Czechoslovak newspaper in the United States.)

By Joseph Martinck

(Written for the United Press)

Prague, Czechoslovakia.

TS Czechoslovakia to be the next subject of German

aggression?

Most likely, but not in the same manner as Austrin, for the case of Czechoslovakia differs in many respects from that of Austria.

Three Children Killed In A Few Minutes

The Austria of 1988 presented the strange picture of a coun- MOTHER'S ORDEAL IN try without an effective army and a government without popular Austrian workers whose support. Not only Nazis but also HOUSE

movement was crushed and driven under ground four years ago Triple tragedy befell an Armenian jopposed Schuschnigg, and reconciliation with them was effected a German-speaking country of AMERICA'S beautics usually renounce their native within a few minutes her three child- too late to save Austria. Austria was without a strong will to barely 7,000,000 population. She had only one "friend", who land after "international" marriages, but grey-ren lost their lives as a result or alive independently. She was

betrayed her-Italy. haired May Yohe, glamour girl of America and England

Although having a sizable German The case of Czecholovakia is in the 'nineties, once fabulously rich, is trying to regainally stabbed his five-year-old brother

She has 16,000,000 nuority, Czechoslovakia is not a German-speaking state. The Czech- her American citizenship in order to take a £5-a-week mother, who was bathing her third different,

child, hearing cries, went to see what inhabitants in an area as large German frontier is one of the oldest had happened.

as England and Wales. She has in Europe, unchanged for about a Government relief job.

The eldest son, terrified at what a strong, well disciplined army thousand years. Above all, Czecho- Slovakia does not stand alone. She Miss Yoho is now married to Captain John Smuts (her fifth

Christian he had done, attempted to run away excellently equipped and has military alliances with France and husband), a nephew of the Boer war general, Jan

fell on to the knife he was still Smuts.

When the mother returned to the tions that can match anything made it unmistakably clear that they She is applying next Monday for the citizenship which abe holding, and was also killed instantly, ported by a system of fortifica-soviet Russia, and these powers have their ally In lost when she married Lord Francis Hope (now the Duke of New-house she found her third child had Germany may build. The great will not stand by idly and permit any

been drowned in the bath.

majority of the people are solidly aggression against

Central Europe, castle) in 1894. The marriage was dissolved in 1902.

united behind the government.

Czechoslovakia thus far has had ne A seven-year-old schoolgirl of They are animated by a fierce real trouble with Germany. She was Trebitech, Czechoslovakia, brought a determination to remain free, on quite good terms with democratic. jalander suit against her teacher be and will defend themselves to the Germany, and has preserved correct relations even with the Third Reich. cause he said to her, "Who

Again, she has declared herself ready steals."

to negotiate with Germany in case of any trouble, but only on the basis of strict reciprocity: while, on the other

Said Miss Yohe: "I must get a job. My husband is ill and I need money,"

Miss Yohe may get a small part in a Government theatrical production. But it is expected that the woman who used to be the best-dressed actress in London and New York will be given a job as a seamstress-sewing, not dresses, but star-spangled banners.

After her marriage to Lord Francis Hope Miss Yohe wore the £60,000 Hope diamond, once the eye of a Burmese idol, on the London stage.

The diamond, said to have brought misfortune to every one who has worn it since the middle of the seventeenth century, is now owned by Mrs. Evelyn McLean, of Washington.

SCHOOL SLANDER SUIT

les,

The Judge, however, ruled that the teacher was only fulfiling his duty les Instructor, says Exchange from

Prague.

DEGREE FOR GERMAN HOUSEWIVES

utmost.

Bacteria Marchand, she is also ready to defend her

Like Soldiers

Good Nazi housewives will be ex- pected henceforth to

n pass examination

the title of and earn

ALSATIAN GOT BISCUITS Housework), says Central News.

INSTEAD OF BULLETS

Washington.

integrity and independence by force if need be.

NO OPEN ATTACK

of

It is because of this well-known Two department of agriculture fact and because of the certainty of "Meisterhausfrauen" (Master of scientists have announced the great European war it Czecho slovakia is attacked that Germany is attack her openly, but discovery of four bacteria that not likely The marriage of members of many

This of the uniformed branches of the Nazi give up their rugged individual-will most probably apply to her a new

aggression.

It has organisation is made dependant not ism when the going gets tough technique

not quite new. only

on the pure Aryan blood of the and organize themselves into an technique is not bride to be, but also on the bride's Ogmoro Vale, Glamorgan.

It consists on the one hand of a polles THE owner of an Alsatian dog was about to shoot the animal having passed out of a mother's army, marching on parade with been applied already in other places, school, so that henceforth the life the precision of West Point completely isolating the last bulwark of democracy in Central Europe; and a campaign of here to-day when a casual glance by him at a thicket revealed of the German woman will be subject cadets.

Scientists have long belleved that on the other hand of that the dog had not been worrying sheep as had been suspected. to more rules and regulations than

bacteria act like ruthless savages, slander in the press, falsely picturing entirely An unemployed miner, Arthur Evans, finding his blood-that of the pre-War army.

These four species, however, cach Czechoslovakia as

well unity

method the no by covered dog in the Dinbath Valley, concluded that it had been

unite in a co-operative organisation

from within by means when the water in which they live of attacking sheep.

starts to dry up. They move in tanks of the masked Nazi party in Czecho- with ny Thousands of bottles

as 50 individual slovakia itself-the Sudeten German many thrown into the sea by the British bacteria in single Ble. Half a dozen party, which is willing to accept the Department of Fisheries in an effort ranks of, bacteria may parade ncross protection offered by Germany. to study the movements of currents a inferoscople field in a few minutes, and Ash,

Thinking the dog had become a killer he tied it to a tree and was about to shoot it when he noticed the torn body of a fox under a thicket.

Realising his mistake he liberated the Alsatian and gave it a couple of biscuits instead of a couple of bullets.

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In regard to the question of the Gorman minority, it is

to he- meinber that Czechoslovakku dld not walt for Hitler in Germany to start policy ot reconciliation and with the German rapprochement minority. This policy originated under the wise liberal leadership of Hitler President Massaryk long before 1

In came into power in Germany, fact, Hiller's advance in Germany interrupted the peaceful process to a extent. Czechoslovakia is foremust among European nations, as far as liberal treatment of minorities is concerned, and is distinguished the one Central European country

movement. without an anti-Semitic

Can Germany succeed in subduing this country a veritable island of democracy in Central Europe-by ternal pressure or by "boring from within?" Not if the great western democracies are not entirely blind to what is going on in Central Europe,

to her And if they will rally

support. To do so necessary, not only for the sake of Czechoslovakia but for the sake of European peace and the pence of the world, because there would be no peace if Germany were permitted to subdue this country and effect the hegemony in Europe for which she is striking to-day-United Press.

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