SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CONCERNED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 301, 1 October 1938, Page 7

SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CONCERNED.

FATE IN SUDETENLAND FEARED; FIFTY THOUSAND ALREADY FLED (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) PRAGUE, September 30. Excitement has been growing since the announcement of the agreement. The Social Democrats are concerned over the fate of their colleagues in Sudetenland. Fifty thousand have already fled into inner Czechoslovakia;. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. ARCHBISHOP’S CALL TO PRAYER, (Received. This Day, 12.30 p.m.) 'LONDON, September 30. The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a call to prayer, appointing Sunday as a day of national thanksgiving. The Cabinet met for less than an hour to-night, and no further meeting has been arranged. GAS-MASKS AS TOYS, MJ-MTC BATTLE IN TRENCHES. LONDON, September 29. The Home Office has warned parents against allowing children to use gasmasks as toys because of the danger of damage making them useless. At Bradford the police were called out this afternoon to two large gangs of children, all wearing gas-masks, who were staging a mimic battle from parallel air-raid trenches in the heart of the city. The police fought their way to the trenches through a hail of stones and clods. -NEW ZEALAND’S MESSAGE. “RELIEF AND THANKSGIVING.” INVERCARGILL, September 30. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) stated to-day that a telegram had been dispatched to the Secretary of. State for Dominion Affairs expressing the relief and thanksgiving of the Government and people of New Zealand that the danger of war, which seemed to be so imminent, has been averted. The message adds that his Majesty’s Government in New Zealand earnestly trusts that the basis of the settlement is such as will prove to be a. lasting safeguard of world peace founded on justice and order among nations.”