PLEBISCITE UNACCEPTABLE SAYS CZECH PREMIER

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 9

PLEBISCITE UNACCEPTABLE SAYS CZECH PREMIER

(Received 1.30 p.m.) •* PRAGUE, September 18. Dr. Hodza, Czech Prime Minister, in a broadcast said a plebiscite was unacceptable because it would create a series of nationality problems for the future. Czechoslovakia was determined to continue to work for peace despite Herr Henlein's refusal to come to an understanding with the Government and his attempt to start an uprising. The Government's attitude towards minorities, especially Sudeten Germans, was unchanged. "The Government does not need Herr Henlein and his leaders, who have Hed because of the collapse of the rising in Sudeten territory," he added "This shows that the majority of the Sudetens love peace. Respect for Law Demanded. "The Government will not institute persecution, but demands respect for the law. The British United Press Prague correspondent says men aged from 1 7 to 60 are forbidden to go to Hungary. Emergency decrees suspend immunity from arrest without . warrant, inviolability of the private house, mail, or s=crecy of the Press. They also give liberty to empower confinement in fixed areas and censorship. Herr Henlein's followers who returned from Germany *■** themselves up to the police, declaring that the alternative to forced labour on German fortifications was internment in a concentration camp.