BITTER OUTBURST

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

BITTER OUTBURST

HENLEIN MANIFESTO RIGHT TO TAKE UP ARMS (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, September 18. Herr Henlein's order for the formation of a Sudeten German volunteer corps, says a Berlin message, is accompanied by a manifesto which states that "Sudeten Germans for years have sought collaboration with the Czech people. The Czechs have continued to intensify their hatred of everything German. "The Prague Government has carried on a ruthless war of destruction. The Czech authorities in the last few weeks have let fall the mask and the Prague Government is no longer master of the situation in the face of Bolshevist and Hussite elements. "Benes is still cheating and deceiving his people about the real state of affairs. He is too cowardly to admit the collapse of his policy, and sees his last hope in a European catastrophe. He is letting loose Bolshevist and Hussite hordes in uniforms of malignant Czech soldiery on defenceless Sudeten Germans. '"Ten thousand racial comrades have been forced to flyacross the frontier to avoid destruction or being taken off as defenceless hostages. We therefore take the right of peoples always exercised in times of extreme need, to take up arms in the form of the Sudeten Volunteer Corps."