1939-03-16 — Page 31

BRITAIN'S DEFENCE

Air Force Strength Deters Aggression

LONDON, Mar. 15. NATIONAL DEFENCE was the subject of an important speech by Lord Chatfield in the House of Lords to-day in his

reply to the debate on this ques- tion,

He emphasized Mr. Chamberlain's recent declaration that our policy of defence did not mean that we did not intend to have both the will and the means to strike back if we were nt- tacked.

There was a time when the pro blem of dealing with the bomber was regarded with something like despair; Buch if ever it was

a feeling was no longer justifled,

Developments in recent years had undoubledly reduced the old supre macy of the offensive over the defensive in alr warfare, and he assured the House that none of the components of air defence was being neglected,

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SWASTIKA AS NATIONAL EMBLEM OF THE CZECHS

BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA, THE TWO CZECH STATES WHICH

BEEN SEIZED BY GERMAN TROOPS, WILL BE INCOR- PORATED IN ALL OFFICIAL GERMAN MAPS AS PART OF THE CREATER REICH.

which will be known as Czokia.

The swastika will be the official flag of the now Gorman provinco,

The Czech Army will be disbanded and German troops will continue in occupation of the entire area. SKODA FACTORY FOR REICH

Included in the German gains are the vast Skoda armaments factories.

The area of the two new German provinces is 30,426 square miles, which is more than half of the pre-September acreage of the entire Czech- Slovak Republic (54,207 square miles).

Slovakia, which will retain an unarmed independence as a semi- German state, has an area of 18,895 square miles and a population of 3,254,000. It is all that will remain on the maps of Europe to show where once stood the proud Central European Republic.

The strength of the fighting force was being extremely sugmented, counter-offensive force had also been the subject of equally careful scrutiny, and measures to strengthen HITLER'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY

it were also actively in hand.

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PRAGUE, Mar. 15.

HERR ADOLF HITLER made a triumphal entry

being delivered to the airforce were into Prague at 7.45 p.m. this evening, in a snowstorm.

It is expected that a triumphal parade will be held to-morrow.

"The Government is determined to build up counter-offensive forces of such a strength as they may, in con- junction with the fighter aireraft and batteries, deter

from an aggressor

attacking us at all, or it it should un- happily fail to do this, will give us all the necessary means for attack as

well as defence."

JACK TARS OF AIK

Lord Chatfield added: "I am con vinced that just as we have been able over many centuries to rely сол- fidently on our sailors to seek out and destroy the fleet of the chemy, so we shall be

able in the future, with our airmen supported on the land by our soldiers, to defend similarly these islands from the air flects of an aggressor."-Reuter,

ANGLO FRENCH CO-OPERATION

old

The Fuchrer took up official residence at the castle of Prague, when his flag was hoisted over the castle German tower by the castle guard, composed of a Fascist regiment.

It is reported that Herr Hitler has commissioned General von Brauschilch to exercise executive power in Bohemia and Moravia.

Burglars Climb Scaffolding

A daring burglary pecurred in the once of the China Plant-Oll Lamp Company, in the S. C. M. Post build- ing in the early hours of this morn lag.

March 16, 1939.

GERMANY ASKED TO EXPLAIN Stresses Willingness'

Of The Czechs

PARIS, Mar. 15.

A COMMUNICATION from

the German Government regard- ing developments in Central Europe was received at the Quai d'Orsay early this afternoon.

It is believed that the communica- tion particularly stressed the fact that entry of German troops into Bohemin and Moravia took place with the assent of the Prague Government, The German Ambassador, Count Welezeck is expected to visit the Foreign Office this afternoon.- Trans-Ocean,

PARIS IMPRESSED

PARIS, Mar. 15.

A request for Information as to the exact meaning of Herr Hitler's pro- clamation with regard to the Czech

State was made b the French Ambassador to Berlin this morning. M. Georges Bonnet had telephone talks this morning with the Polish Ambassador and the French Ambas- sador in London.

This evening, M. Bonnet is receiv ing the German Ambassador, who will confirm the communication made this morning by which the German Government declared that its action taken in In Czecho-Slovakia was agreement with the Government in Prague.

the

changes in Czecho-Slovakia has made The speed and gravity of the Entry was obtained by breaking a deep impression here, but what has the glass window, the burglars climb-most impressed the French la lug scaffolding which has bern passage in Hitler's proclamation creeted for the purpose of renovating vital to Germany and that it belonged declaring that Czecho-Slovakia is the building

to Germany over 1,000 years. A quantity of radio apparatus and

This proclamation is regarded as machine tools พร stolen. The abandonment of the principles of culprits used twa

waste-paper racism enunciated in "Mein Kampf", baskets to carry away the loot. The and also Hitler's statement after value of the stolen property has not Munich, when

he declared that yet been ascertained.

National Socialism did not envisage incorporation in the Reich of non- Germans.-Reuter.

Chungking-Hanoi Air Service

An earlier Berlin message says that Herr Hiller arrived nt Boemischelelpa on Bohemian territory this afternoon en route to Prague, accompanied by Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, practical purposes the bistorie home- General Keitel, General von Steilpnagel, the Quartermaster-land of the Czech people will hence- forth be merely provinces of the General of the Army, Herr Himmler, and many other high army

addi- Reich, which will receive an officers and party officers.

tional population of more than seven form- For the time being, commanders of lions, together with rich to respective army corps have execu-Jan's from whence to obtain, without tive power in Bohemia and Moravia, currency difficulties, its vilaily need-

Chungking, Mar. 16. with a civil administration

ed agricultural preduce. being

The Chungking-Hanoi air service organised to assist them.

Measures expected to be taken in-was formally Inaugurated yesterday clude:-

when the C.N.A.C. plane Chungshan left Chungking for Hanol via Kun- theming.

London, Mar. 15.

Herr Konrad Henlein, formerĮ Replying to questions, Mr. Geoffrey Sudeten leader has been appoint- Shakespeare, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, declared 12 the House of Commons to-day, that i Britain and France found themselves allled in any future war, it was con- templated that naval co-operation would-be complete.

Conversations had already begun between the respective naval staffs. and were being continued.--Reuter.

Air Services To Orient

Night Flying To Aid Speed-Up

ed civil administrator at the German army headquarters in Prague, while Herr Buerckel has been selected as head of the civil administration of Moravia at the German army headquarters in Prague.

Reports from Bratislava state that Ruthenian storm-troopers disarmed a large section of the Czech military.

CABINET RESIGNS

Prague, Mar. 15. The Czech Cabinet has resigned, General Gajda, the Fascist leader, has been made "Fuchrer of the Czech people".-Reuter,

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According to 11 message from Prague, the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Army Group, General Blas- kowitz issued a proclamation to the population to-day in the following

terms:

"STRICT OBEDIENCE" "Executive power in Bohemia hav- ing been entrusted to me, I have made the following enactments: The Relch Commissary and regional leader, Herr Konrad Henlein is appointed head of the civil adminis- tration within the area of the Third Army Group. On my behalf he undertakes the task of supervision of the entire public administration, in-

That in. Prague,

of

1-The incorporation Bohemian and Moravian financial and

There were twelve possengers to Customs systems with the Reich, Kunming and the other four to

2-The provinces will be brought Hanoi. in the near future within the scope between Chungking and Hanol every The plane will make a round trip of General Goering's four year plan. National Bank's full gold reserves.

3-Berlin to take over the Progue week.-Central News.

4. The Czech army to be disband- ed and the Relch to assume the com-

Bohemia Moravia, plete defence of

and

probably be introduced in the

5. The Nuremburg Jew laws will territory. United Press.

now

Missing Plane Is Found

Kunming, Mar. 10. The missing Eurasia plane is re- ported to have been discovered at Lishinho, in the district of Weining In west Kweichow.

TENSION AMONG NEIGHBOURS

Prague, Mar. 15. Herr Hiller and his army marched East to-day, erasing the last part of The four Chinese passengers aboard democratic Czecho-Slovakia, while are Messrs. Yang Wen-ming. Wang Hungary,

Poland and Rumania Feng-chang, Tsão Shao-hsien, and fought to share the spoils.

Hau Ching-tsch.-Central News, Meanwhile, Rumania is reported to be mobilising her frontier reinforce- ments possibly to make a bird for a slice of Ruthenia.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

WALL STREET NERVOUS

New York, Mar. 15. Nervousness over the Czecho

́work of public administration" Slovakian situation dominated deal-continues as usual unless it is decided LONDON, Mar. 15.

Ings on the New York stock and share otherwise. This applies also to the

departments of polier, exchange to-day.

post offices QUESTIONED IN the House

The break was the widest slace and to public services of all kinds. of Commons by Mr. H. Day re- January 20 when Czech bonda crash-tire economic activity continues

without interruption. garding the differences in the ed both on the New Yoric and London remain at his post.

Everyone must timings of Imperial Airways and markets.

"Orders

of the German military Wall Street's principal worry was authorities and of the head of the K.L.M., between London and

concerned with the European political civil administration acting on my be- Singapore, Captain H, H. situation and also considerable dis- half must be strictly obeyed in the Slavia, and the authorities have de- There is general tension in Yugo- Balfour, Under-Secretary of appolatinent was felt

regarding interest alike of the community elded to take military precautions developments, State for Air, stated that it was domestic

especially as a whole and of Individuals. on the northern frontier facing intended to speed-up the Em-over the Federal Reserve

The Hongkong. Stock Exchange which dissipated hopes of a margin

sungary and Rumania, pire services time-table pro

Terror prevelled in Prague to-day yesterday, says:

offlelal summary issued 12.30 p.m. gressively by the extension of

among those who fear Nazi reprisals, The especially the Jews. It is reported prices being well maintained

continued steady, night flying, and the provision

and that many suicides have taken place. buyers predominating for most of the of aircraft.

The arrival of 800 Nazi secret popular counters. police has increased apprehension.

The atmosphere was so hostile that the German forces imposed an 8 p.m. curfew and troops carried riot gunsj in addition to their ordinary arms. It is reported that they mounted machine guns at strategic points to command the crowds. ·

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ESTABLISHING RELATIONS

ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS

Belgrade, Mar. 15.

Prague, Mar. 15. Continuous anti-German demon- Production orders had already been

A Czech committee 10T the trations took place in the Terazia, placed.

establishment of friendly relations which is the main street in Belgrade Asked it any new machines had between the Czech nation and the to-night. been constructed, Captain Balfour German army was formed here to- Crowds, singing national songs, replied there were 14 new civil types day.

marched towards the palace with of aircraft being constructed by It consists of political and non-eries of "Long live the King, the Faireys, and protiably, when com-political groups. The political group Army, and Czecho-Slovakia."-Reu- plated in 1041 or 1942, would be used is composed of adherents to the so-ter.

on this and other roules.-Reuter. called "Vlaika" movement, in which

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It is noteworthy that it is the first time Hitler's soldiers have ever been booed publicly-United Press.

THREE SHOTS FIRED!

Prague, Mar. 15. With the exception of three shots,, the occupation of all large towns in the Provinces

of Moravia and Bohemia was carried out with amaz- cautioned | ing speed and without incident.

Loud-speakers still people to keep silent and orderly.

A rigid curfew was imposed which forced bars and restaurants to close at 7 pm., with everybody of the jstrects at 9 p.m.

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Berlin, Mar, 15, Although, technically speaking, Bohemia and Moravia will · probably reign to certain degree under a local Administrative... žutonomy, for all

The speed to all the more remark- able because of the heavy snow- falls and the unfavourable weather in general. With one exception no clashes between the German army the Czech population or the and Czech army, which is in the mean- time being disarmed, took place,

The Czech garrison at Misteki erected barricades and refused to surrender. Three shots from German gun were fired, and the Czechs signified their surrender by hoisting a white flag. The Czechs, lost one dead and three, wounded.- Trans-Ocean.

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