SUDETEN CORPS TO ATTACK FRONTIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 9

SUDETEN CORPS TO ATTACK FRONTIER.

HENLEM IN CHARGE.

Four Divisions With 10,000

Men in Each.

TROOP ACTIVITY REPORTED. I'nited Tress Association. —Copyright. (Heceived 11 a.m.) LONDON', September 19. A Sudeten official at Sell) stated that the Sudeten "Free Corps" would continue its attacks on the Czech frontier. It has been decided to limit the corps to four divisions of 10,000 men each. Herr Henlein will be in supreme command. A large Sudeten rally will be held in Dresden to-night. A Munich message says Germany continues t<; move men and material to the frontier. Many are going east towards .Austria. A Bucharest message says Rumania has increased its labour force working on the strategic railroad linking up Czechoslovakia, and Soviet troops have also moved to where disorders might be expected. Herman military outposts, each consi>ting of K) men. to-day approached within fighting distance of the Czech frontier, says the Prague correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." The movements of two divisions of (.'ennan troops were visible from the Czech frontier. The German Legation in Prague has begun removing its luggage and documents to Germany. He.rr Hitler conferred with the Foreign Minister, Herr von Kibbentrop, several times during the week-end and received several high .Army officers, says the "Daily Telegraph' , Berlin correspondent. , The Herman Minister in Prague returned to Berlin to report to Herr Hitler upon Chechoclovakian feeling and military preparations, according to the Berlin correspondent of the '"News Chronicle." His information is that the Czech Army at present comprises 4OO.()(i() men. and could be raised in it) days to SOO.OOO.

' Germany at present lias about 1.r>00.000 troops, but must secure her western and other frontiers; accordingly, military experts consider, there would not be many more than f>oo.ooo men for a campaign against the Czechs.

The correspondent adds that the French have mined roads on the Luxembourg frontier and also extensively deviated some of the main roads.

A report is being circulated by the Associated Press, says a dispatch from Washington, to the effect that Germany has withdrawn from Spain a quantity of equipment, including the new rapidfire electrically-controlled artillery and Heinkel aircraft.

The movement Is reported to he accompanied by a speeding-up of shipments of ore from Bilbao to Germany.

"ACTION CAN BEGIN."

Preparations Complete for Advance. SUDETEN MANIFESTO. (Received 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, September 19. Sudeten refugees now number 100,000, and are distributed in 53 camps in Saxony. An announcement from the headquarters of the Sudeten Free Corps, states: "Preparations are complete and action can begin." It adds: "This announcement caused joy among the Sudetens, who lately were able to flee from the terror of the Hussite mob. There were touching scenes of reunion witli those lost in the last few days of heavy fighting and have now found a common front, burning for the moment when they can free their racial comrades from the regime of Czech Bolshevists.'"

The Berlin representative of the Uiitish United Press says warlike preparations towards the Czech border continue. Roads at Breslau are jammed. Military transport, trainloads of guns and bodies of troops are reported to be moving towards the border.

Herr Henk'in's whereabouts are still a closely guarded secret, but it is believed he is in the vicinity of Selb.

INDIAN PRINCES.

LOYALTY TO KING ASSURED

(Recpivfd 11 a.m.) ?IMLA. September 19. Additional Princes placing their forces at the disposal of the King and Emperor in the event of war are the Maharajahs of Gwalior. Jodhpur. Banta. Dunuarpur. Maharao, Kota. Maharawat, Partabgarh. and the Nawabs Sachin, Palanpur and Tank.