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Below a Prague Correspondent continues his story of how Hitler's plans for a "Greater Ukraine" are being pushed forward. WARSAW, Mar. 17.
THE MOVEMENT
for
the creation of a "Greater
Ukrainian". State,
which
eventually seeks to include
a
the Soviet Ukraine, is vital one and must be taken seriously.
This is the main impression I have received as the result of numerous conversations with both Ukrainian and Foreign circles in Chust, capital of the autonomous province of Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine) which has just been seized by Hungary.
It has to be realised that Chust s not merely the chlef town of a small and remote corner of the former Republic of Czech-Slovakia. JOBS FOR EXILES It is u
centre also, since Inst November, for the extremely im- portant Ukrainlan minority of neigh
which bouring Poland,
number 7,000,000 people.
QACO
NGARY
POJAVA
UKRAI
LBERG
BUM
VA Area with considerable Varaus populahan
* Cool Arce, ✪ fren WAJ Margarest
tinctly Germanised in manner.
Antagonisms towards C'zeelto- fostered at Slovakia was steadily Chust and now the same agitation will rise against the Hungarians. In an election speccb, the Propa- Kanda Chief wald: We were oppress- Many emigrant Ukrainians from ed by the Hungarians, and we were
20 yearn Poland are now living in Ruthenia uppressed and are being given official Jobs Czectis," there.
A high proportion of the members of the Silch, the Ukrainian semi- milltary organisation. are refugees from Poland or from Rumania, where the Ukrainion minority is vigorously suppressed.
Some of them even come from the Soviet Union.
The Sitch is the advance guard of the "Ukrainian Nationalist Movement. According to Minister Jullan Revay, it numbers 15.0
"WHEN CZECHS GO"
Gennany.
for
DHEPROSI
Jak of Hiles
CRIMEA
DISNEY
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH IN FULL
WILD CHEERS and applause greeted final passages in Mr. Neville Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham to-day in which he declared:
"There is hardly anything I would not sacrifice for peace, but there is one thing I must except; that is blie liberty we have enjoyed for hundreds of years, and which we will never surrender.
"While I am not prepared to engage this country by new and unspecified commitments, yet no greater mistake could be made than to suppose this nation will not take part to the utmost of its power in resisting the challenge, if ever it were made, and for that declaration I am convinced I have not merely the support, sympathy and confidence of my
66
ATTEMPT
own
countrymen and countrywomen, but the approval of the whole British Empire, and all the other nations who value peace indeed, but value freedom even
more."
At the beginning of his speech, the Premier said: "The tremendous events which have been taking place in Europe have thrown everything else into the background. I feel that what you, and those who are listening want to hear, is some indication of the views of His Majesty's Government as to the nature and implications of those events. One thing is certain; public opinion in the world has received a sharper shock than has ever yet been administered to it, even by the present regime in Germany.”
TO
DOMINATE
وو
THE WORLD BY FORCE "
"What may be the effects
Heavy Lorry of this profound disturbance
Overturns
by the Lucky Escape For
Five Passengers
NATIONAL REGISTER FOR H.K. (Continued from Page 1) within two months of arrival the Colony.
in
on men's minds cannot yet be foretold, but I am sure that it must be far-reaching upon the
in its results
" said Mr. Chamber- lain.
future,"
an over-
"Owing to lack of information Five Chinese and a driver of heavy last Wednesday, I was obliged to truck miraculously escaped death
myself to this morning when the truck over confine turned in King's Road opposite the restrained and cautious exposi- Tungar Press Co., shortly after 7tion on what, at the time, I could co'clock this morning,
electric iron
to
Hitler's Other Minorities
Here is the official list of all the German-speaking people whom Iutler claims to "lead" and "protect," total- ling 27.023,000:-
Russla
Rumania
Czechoslovakin...... 3,700,800
Denmark
77,000
Switzerland
2,000,000
Belgium
50,000
France
1,034 000
Liechtenstein
10,000
Poland
1,245.000
USA.
12,000,000
1.185.000
750,000
800,000
Chile.....
720,000
740.000
Argentina
200,000
305,000
100.000
348.000
Africa ....
78,000
280,000
Canada .................................
50,000
Small Latin Ameri-
235,000
can countrica ...
28,000
Jugoslavia
Hungary
Danzig
Luxembourg
Baltic State ......... 248,000
Italy.........
Australia
Hitler thought that it ought to be undone, to consultation, which is provided in the Munich agreement.
TOOK LAW INTO OWN HANDS
"Instead of that, he has taken the law into his own hands. "Before even the Czech President was confronted with the demands he had no
power
resist, German troops were on the move. And in a few hours they were in the Czech capital."
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The Premier described the position of the Czechs under the German regime, adding:
"Who con fall to feel his heart go out in sympathy, to a proud and braven people, who have suddenly; been sub- jected to these inflictions, whose ilberties are curtailed, and national independence has gone,
What has become of these dia-
whose
The lorry was severely damaged, make but little commentary, and the driver's sent being crushed perhaps naturally, that some- against the ground and hemmed in what cool and objective state- CHECK ON ALIENS
with woodwork. The bonnet was ment gave rise to misapprehen- The first part of the Bill sets intact, indicating that no head-on sion. that all aliens except collision had occurred. Two parollei
"Some thought that because I spoke satisfied that the policy had been, people shared my hopes and ardently clalmers of no further territorial The Sitch gets a subsidy from the out
established and accepted by others, desired that the policy should be ambitions?
DEFENCE ACCELERATED carried further, but to-day I share "What has become of the assurances Chust Government, funds for which Chinese must report in person or Inskid murks tended to show that the
"Therefore, after Munich, our own their disappointment and indignat.on 'We don't want the Czechs in the are understood to come in part from writing to the Registration of Persons vehicle had skidded for about 10 quietly, I did not feel strongly on Office. Police Department, their yards on its side before coming to a the subject. I hope to correct that
defence programme mustake to-night."
was actually that those hopes have been so Reich"?
"What regard has been paid bere of
Mr. Chamberlain proceeded An cficia!
the
accelerated and expanded in order to wantonly shattered. How can these Carpatho-arrival in the Colony within 48 hours standstill close to an
certain weaknesses which events remedy
be reconelled
the to the principle of self-determination with Ukrainian Government told me that and any change of business or re-post.
The lorry was loaded with tubs of deal with the criticism that the
which Hitler argued with me co it was being trained and drilled on sidential address within a week be-
oil, boxes of song, and other goods occupation of Czech-Slovakia was a
"I was convinced after Munich "As a joint signatory to the Munich vehemently at Berchtesgaden when military lines, so that it should take fore the contemplated change.
and had been travelling from the direct consequence of his visits to becnie apparent during the crisis, assurances I read to you?
Germany last autumn, and since the
(Continued on Page 4.) over the defence of the count if required to do so by the Police direction of Shouleiwan to Causeway result of these events had been to that the great majority of the British agreement, I was entitled, if Herr "when the Crechs go." This, bow- these persons shall All up a form Bay.
sooner than expected known as Schedule No.
Out of the six men who were said tear up the Munich agreement, that and
not Hitler, WIS quickest on the scene.
establishes identity, passport parti- to have been on the truck only one proved that the whole circumstances All Ultrainians emphasise that a culars, visa particulars and nature was there when a reporter arrived, of these visits were wrong.
pholographs of
ver
which
Jut of preparatory work is necessary of profession or business with two He had a small swelling on his fore-
the alien, it head and bruise on
yet before even the Ukrainians in Poland and Rumania can be united pointed out that the answers to these
questions on the form with those in -Ruthenin.
The detaching of the Ukraine from admissible in court proceedings.
the U.S.S.R, is an even more distanti affair.
WAR NOT NEEDED
would
Keepers of Judging houses hotels, secretaries of clubs,
be
bath checks.
He said that the other men were only slightly hurt.
PREMIER BLAMED
his
He said: "It is said that as this was the personal policy of the Prime A European motorist stopped to Minister, the blame for the fate of enquire if any help could be render Czecho-Slovakia must rest on and ed and on seeing the state of the shoulders. super-car and the condition of the injured "That is an entirely unwarrantable But everyone in Chust is ennvinced Intendenta of hospitals or such man, he said: "I think you are very conclusion, I went there, first and that one way or another, with or institutions and persons in whose lucky."
foremost, because in what appeared without war, the Great Ukraine will households aliens are living (except- As far as could be ascertained the to be an almost desperate situation. be established.
ing Chinese) must enter in a register accident occurred when the truck that seemed to offer the only chance One well-informed Ukrainian from names, nationality, arrival, departure, that overturned was overtaken by of averting a European war.
destination etc., of such allons. Ships another lorry. The occupants of the Polond vald to me quite frankly: "We masters, owners or agents must also smushed car jumped clear before it don't need a war. All we need is turnish details of their alien passeri | turned on its side. plenty of radio propaganda and on gers within 48 hours after arrival or irridentist campaign such as world has never yet seen.
Aliens exempt from the nuove “Thên arms smuggling, perhaps a provisions are those who have pre- little help from Germany and the viously reported themselves or given Ukrainians everywhere will do the the above Information to the Police; Job themselves."
others according to the discretion of
the departure.
Asked if he thought the Soviet the Commissioner of Police; Consular would give up the Ukraine without Omeers and their familles; the fighting, the same man suld: |bersonnel of ships; and persons under
"We reckon that there is bount to 18. be an internal collapse in the Soviet
Union before tung. The Army's[
equipment la excellent, but the men
are demoralised.
"Besides the Ukrainians in the Soviet are discontented.
Moscow
will not be able to suppress 30 id million people now that this movo- ment has really started."
Stimson Cables
T. V.
Soong
Chungking, Mar. 17.
DEMOCRACIES
HITLER
FLAY
(Continued from Page 1.) "protectorates", where it is estimated) that 10,000 have been arrested Bohemia alone,
"The first and most immediate object of my visit was achieved. The peace of Europe was saved. and if it had not beca for these visits, hundreds of thousands of families would to-day be mourn. ing for the flower of Europe's man- hood. "Really, I have no need to defend visit to Germany, for what was my the alternative?
"Nothing that we,
Jr
Russia
L
The Nazis full military power has] been brandished, in
France.
or
could
could have done, possibly have saved Czecho-Slovakia from Invasion and destruction.
Even If we had subsequently gone
Europe and to war to punish Germany, and after
Hitler has marched eastward to a the frightful losses inflicted on all warm greeting from Germans at the partakers, we had been victorious, Brno.
we could never have reconstructed Czecho-Slovakia as framel by the Nazi planes combed the skies, Versailles treaty.
In response to the telegrams off while German soldiers to-day advan
Much the same opinion was ex-congratulation addressed to Col. Henry presser by an official of the Ministry Stimson on his acceptance of of Education and Public Enlighten-Honorary Chairman of the American Commitice for Non-participation in Japanese Aggression by Dr. T. V.
ment in Chust.
Ukrainian State. We are ready to Vice-President
tak help from anyone..
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ced to the Ruthenian frontier.
NO DOMINATION
Offlelal sources state that Ger-
"I went to Munich to further the many will enter Ruthenia if the
sometimes called Hungarians fail completely to con- policy which i trol the situation in a bilert while. European appeasement.'
He said further: "In a few years Song and Mr. Shue Li-tze in their
In the House of Commons. Mr. "If that policy is to succeed, it is we shall establish completely respective capacity of President and Noti Baker asked whether Brital essential that na Power should seek domination of of 1.P.C. China was protesting to Gerniany regarding to obtain general Branch, the Colonel sent Dr. Soong "this act of aggression".
Europe, but that each should be con- We know that we must pay for the following message: this help, and we shall pay, but only
Sir John Simon replied "That is tent to obtain reasonable facilities resources, "Your message is much appreciat- one of the matters on which we are for developing its own
With deep adiniration
with France," securing its own share of Interna- for in communication
tional trade, and Improving the con- BOMBERS FLY EAST ditions of its own people."
Prague, Mar, 17,
Mr. Chamberlain made a lengthy With the resumption of the German reference to Herr Hitler's assurances
sas long as it is absolutely hecessary: cd,
Of couse." he added, "France will bravery of the Chinese people and United Press. have to be settled first by Italy and firm belief in ultimate Justice and Germany.. Then there is the colonial triumph of your cause. this Com- question.
mittee will continue..unceasingly its "Only: when these things are out efforts toward American non-advance, successive squadrons of at Munich that Sudetenland was his of the way will Germany take cooperation with the aggressor." declaive action in Eastern Europe."
large bombers were seen this morning last territorial ambitions in Europe, Col. Stimson also asked Dr. Seong flying eastwards, favoured by good which he confirmed in his speech at The second important fact toto kladly convey the same message viability.
in Berlin. the Sports Palace
realise is the Nazis will burn their to Messrs. Shao Li-tze and Chen The mood of the population is still "In view of Ú:cso assurances I fingers badly if they think that any Min-shu; to the faculty members of cullen and bitter. Great Ukraine of the future will China's National Central University
All leading Czech organisations considered myself justified in, found- submit to being a mere colony of including Mr. Lo Chia-luen; to News- have been ordered to place them ing the hope that once the Czecho Germany.
paper Publishers and Editors, Shang-selves at the disposal of a national Slovakia question was settled, as it The Ukrainians are, a tough and National
That Chamber of Commerce and committee under M. Gajda and to seemed at Munich, it would be vizorom proule. Those who have, Organisations, from whom he has the comihitice,
hof Business nominato representatives to serve on possible to carry further the policy
of appeasement. been educated abroad or who have also received messages. Central
"Nevertheless, I was not prepared any contact with the West are dis-News
Federation
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