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SHIP CATCHES FIRE

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AT BOTTOM CZECH GOVERNMENT MAY RESIGN

RESULT OF REICH

OF SEA

·SHIP caught fire at the bottom of the sea two years after she, mank with the loss of Aro lives in fobson's Bay, Melbourne, mays Reuter.

..

Tho, water, lever inside the Kakariki had been pumped down to nine feet, and a pump had been lowered to remove the remaining water.

As the engineer-in-charge was pouring petrol into this engine forly feet below the aur- face, it caught fire. His clothes allght, he jumped into the water in the hold, but burning petrol spread over the water and ho bad to rush up. the funnel Jadder.

For an hour the funnel, pro- truding a few feet above the sea, spouted flames and smoke. the More water was let into hold to extinguish the fire, and now the task of pumping it out again has been resumed.

Quins To Meet Their Majesties

OTTAWA, Mar. 13. MR OLIVA DION- NE, father of the famed

AS

WAR IN SPAIN

MADRID NORMAL

PRESSURE

Six Die In Bratislava Riots: Early Reports Of Crisis

No Belligerent Rights SIX

For Nationalists

MADRID, Mar. 18.

COMPLETE NORMAL condi- tions returned to Madrid to-day.

Besides trams, which

re-

sumed yesterday, tube trains

from east to west are again working.

Shops have reopened and women are outside bakers shops for their daily loaf of bread after being three or four days without bread.

The theatres and cinemas inve also reopened. Reuter,

ITALIAN LOSSES

Rome, Mar, 13. The casualty lists of Italian volun- teors in Spain up to the middle of February is officially given as 14,353 officers and men.

<mi-

Of this total, 272 ofcers and 2,703 men were killed, 888 officers and 0,819 men were wounded, six officers and 200 men are missing, and five taken officers and. 201 men. Wero prisonerTrans-Ocean.

BELLIGERENT RIGHTS

London, Mar. 13. Mr. Neville Chamberlain quintuplets, has accept-phasised that the Government's polley regarding belligerent rights remain- ed an invitation from unchanged, when he was asked in the House of Commons to-day for a the Ontario Govern-statement regarding the declaration ment for the Quins to of the blockade by the Spanish Na-

tionalist Government. go to Toronto to meet Mr. Butler, replying to further the King and Queen.

The Quins will be presented to Their Majesties on. May 22 in the Lieutenant-Governor's chambers in the Legislative Building-Reuter.

Chengtu, Mar, 14. The Ministry of Communications has puncunced that the long-distance telephone service between Chengtu and Kunming will he inaugurated to morrow. Central News,

BRATISLAVA, MAR. 13.

WERE KILLED IN THREE BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN BRATISLAVA TO-NIGHT,

· One bomb damaged a house and killed two as well as injuring three other people near the Danube bridge head.

A second bomb exploded in the German-owned shoe. polish factory, where four were killed,

THE CASHED

CZECH

Germany through its seizure of Czecho-Slovakia's Sude'en- land hus gained control of these proportions of Czecho- Slovak Industries:

69 per cent, of textiles,

75 per cent, of glass,

38 per cent. of chemicals,

44 per cent. of poltery and earthenware,

51 per cent. of paper, 30 per cent. of metal.

68 per cent. of musical instru- ments,

03 per cent. of toys,

50 per cent. of the generation of electric power.

"Hamburger

Fremdenblatt"

Emergency Unit Called Out Emergency unit

was called

questions on Spain, declared that the situation In Central Spain was very confused. The British Government had not been in contact either with the Republicans or Nationalists about out at 9.30 a.m. to 236 Shang- conditions for an armistice.

The Government

regarded

re-hal Street, where an altempted armed patriation of Spanish refugees from robbery by four men

with daggers and chopper was reported.

Frabce .05

between the 11 matter French and Spanish governments.

His Majesty's Government had de- cided to render assistanco towards the maintenance of refugees, and a grant would be made in the immediate future to the British Red Cross. perfectly clear that the British navy Replying to additional questions on would take action on the high seas it the Franco blockade, Mr. Butler said there was any interference with Bri- that Viscount Halifax hed mode it fish ships.-Reuter.

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A third bomb exploded near the old Rathaus. A demonstration ended at 10 a.m., with the appearance of M. Mach on the balcony of the Hotel Carlton, who announced receipt of a telegram from M. Tiso which read: "The Slovak problems are already solved."

The demonstrators replied aggression against Czecho-Slovakin, with heils for Tuka and Hitler, and not to the disintegration of the

country through internal causes. and "Down with the Czechs."

It is added that for the time being The police at first opposed the British Interests aro not affected by demonstration with rifles and the events in Bratislava. tear gas, but they suddenly censed hindering the crowd, fresh presumably acting on orders.-United Press. LONDON, PARIS IN CLOSE TOUCH

Tension has increased considerably in Czecho-Slovakia as a result of Jalest developments in Slovakia,

NO CONCRETE PROPOSALS The British Government is stated to be in close touch with Paris on the subject of the developments. In Czecho-Slovakin, but that no concrete proposals regarding eventun steps to be taken by either Government have yet been made.

No official communication from It is reported that Herr Hitler had the Czecho-Slovak Government con- decided to send either demands or cerning the situation has yet been

received in London.--Trans-Occas

| recommendations to Prague inst

night.

Field Marshal Goering, who has been holidaying in Italy, has return- ed unexpectedly to Berlin,

"Reuter" semi-officially learns that Germany Is asking the Central comply Government in Prague to with the following:

1-The right for Slovakia to self-

determination;

2. The resignation of the Czech Defence Minister, General Sirovy; 3-Guaranteed protection of Ger-

man minorities in Bohemia andi Moravia..

The British Government is said to be in close touch with Paris on the subject of the developments in Czecho-Slovakia.,

INTERVIEW HITLER

Berlin, Mar. 13,

GERMAN TROOP MOVEMENTS

MUNICH, Már, 13.

The movements of German troops In Bavaria in recent weeks) have been large enough to altract) attention, and has been the sub- Ject of discussion among the pablle. Movements have been observed with more than usual strength in the direction of Salzburg, and

have

taken

from place Nuremberg to Munich.

The troops involved are mostly with detachments, mochaalsed light guns, anti-aircraft guns, and armoured cars-Reuter,

some

CZECH CABINET TO RESIGN?

Prague, Mar. 13. Evidence of the increasing anxiety with which the situation in Czecho- Slovakin is viewed here, is furnished by the persistent rumours of the im- M. Tiso, former Premier of pending resignation, not only of the Slovakia, and M. Dureansks, arrived Beran Cabinet, but also of President in Berlin by special plane from Hocha, to whom chief responsibility Vienna to-day, when they drove to for the conduct of the Czech pollee tho Foreign Omice and saw Herr authorities is attributed. Joachim von Ribbentrop, who took

the new would be headed by General: where Herr Hitler was waiting for Gajde, who was lander of the Czech them.

Legionartes Government.

them straight to the Chanecllery. According to reports,

Decisions made at the interviews, if any, are being kept secret.

An-official-communique issued afler the meeting merely says that "pending issues" were discussed, but it is reported that Herr Hitler is sending demands recommenda- Lions to Prague to-night.

PARLIAMENT SUMMONED

Opinion is growing in Prague polical circles that it is hopeless to try to retain the Slovaks within the undaries of the Cacho-Slovak Republic-Trans-Ocean,

AXIS POWERS AGREE

the

Rane, Mar. 13. Commenting on the latest events in Czecho-Slovakia, the papers here emphasise complete agreement be- A Prague' message says that it in tween the Axis Powers concerning semi-oficially learned that ex-

the necessity of definitely settling the оп the Premier Tiso requested President Czecho-Slovakin problem Hacha to summon the Slovak Parlia basis of the fullest autonomy of all ment in Bratislava at 10. am. to- the main ethnical elements in the morrow.

Republic, a settlement destined to The request is stated to bave been prevent the domination of the Prague made as a result of M. Tiso's talk Government over the Government of with Herr Hitler.

Bratislava, and elimination of the so- President Hacha has compiled with called Benes policy-Trans-Ocean. the request.

HUNGARIANS ARRESTED

Budapest, Mar. 13. Thirty Hungarian political leaders have been arrested in Presnov in Slovakin by the Czechs,, according to the newspaper "Magratazag

The Slovak Parliament will have to decide the future of Slovakia,

GERMAN DEMANDS

It is also stated that all leaders of the Hlinka Guards in Presnov bave

It is semi-officially learned that Germany 13 asking the Central Government at Prague, firstly to give Slovakia the right of self-determina-

secondly, to replace the present been arrested because they protested Czegła Defence present against the arrest, of the Hungarians. A clash occurred between the Sirovy and the Minister of the Czech millila and Hunka Guards, interior; thirdly, to guarantee pro during which fection of the German minorities In

seriously wounded.-Frans-Occon Bohemia and Moravia Reuter

MURCAC DISMISSED,

Prague, Mar, 13. Chief of Staff of the Slovak Hinka Guards, Colonel Murgae, has been dismissed from

offies by the newly

COMMONS STATEMENT

London, Mar. 13. Making a statement in the House

were

Karl

of Commons to-day on the situation appointed Slovak Premier, M...

Czecho-Slovakio, Mr, Neville Sidor, according to a report broad- Chamberlain declared that according cast by the Prague radio to-night, to his reports, only minor incidents Grounds for this action was had occurred in Bratislava in the Colonel Murgue's speech which was last few days, and the situation there broadenst from Vienna on Saturday, appeared to be outwardly. calm. It is stated. Reuter,

called M. Colonel Murgic then Sidor a traitor, who had betrayed the Slovaks to the Czechs

GOERING RETURNS

Rome, Mar: 13;

The Deputy, M. Paul Carnegarsky Field-Marshal Hermann Goering, has been appointed the new chief of who has been on holiday in Italy left the linku, Guards Trans-Ocean,

by

Unexpectedly to-day on Field-"]

the alternoon, train.

I believed here that Marshal Goering's return to Germany may be due to events in Czecho Slovakla, and, the renewed tension between Berlin and Drague-Reuter LONDON RESERVE

London, Mar. 13. Omelal circles, in Londonsimaintain reserve lo regard to the events la Czecho-Slovakiažo

Concerning the question of British guarantee of Czecho-Slovak territory; in pointed butiin intprijed quarters that ho formal guarentee, has aver been given, LINNAO

It is also emphasised that any “muarantee tÖE relate only

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