DEMAND ACCEPTED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 14, 27 October 1938, Page 5

DEMAND ACCEPTED

CZECH REPLY TO HUNGARY. r THE CESSION OF TERRITORY. ARBITRATION AGREED TO. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 20-

The Czech Foreign Minister (M. Chvalkovsky) handed to the Hungarian Minister the Czech reply accepting the Hungarian demand for occupation of districts, the cession of which has been mutually agreed to, but suggesting that a week is not sufficient to remove material. Accordingly Czechoslovakia proposes consultation between the Czech and Hungarian military authorities. She also accepts in principle Italo-Ger-man arbitration regarding the districts which Hungary claimed but the Czechs refused.

The reply adds that the Czechs insist that Rumania, also be consulted if Poland be brought into the arbitration in accordance with the Hungarian suggestion.

M. Backinsky and M. Reavy, Ruthenian Ministers in the Czech Cabinet, have resigned, considering that the Cabinet’s decisions sacrifice the interests of Carpathian Ruthenians. Dr. Brodie, the Ruthenian Premier, has also resigned. Herr Karmasin, German representative in the Slovak Cabinet, has asked permission to attend the Czech-Hun-garian negotiations on the ground that German minorities claim a voice in their own disposal.

MORE PERSECUTION. FLIGHT OF JEWS AND CZECHS. .GERMAN OCCUPIED AREAS. LONDON, October 25. The Prague correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that the persecution of Jews and Czech minorities in the German-occupied areas is increasing. The majority of Jewish and Czech shops are closed. Many Czech and German Democrats and priests are being ill-treated. An archbishop notary, M. Kopecky, was beaten up. Jewish shops have been plundered in Slovakia. Hundreds of Jews, thrown into “no man’s land,” are dying of cold and hunger. The British observers who went to Czechoslovakia to supervise the transfer of territory to Germany have returned; to England. The transfers were effected in a friendly spirit and with an absence of disturbance, because oi the conciliation shown by both sides.