WAITING ORDERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 7

WAITING ORDERS

German Troops Ready

SOVIET 'PLANES LAND?

(Received 2 p.m.) ~T~' LONDON, September 22. The Daily Telegraph's" Munich correspondent says that all troops are mobile and in readiness awaiting orders to move towards Czechoslovakia. Thousands of private vehicles have been commandeered by military forces, and hundreds of motor lorries are loading military supplies in barrack yards. At Metz all members of garrisons are confined to barracks, and the Maginot Line is manned. 'Planes are patrolling the frontier day and night. The Daily Telegraphs'* Prague correspondent says that gendarmerie and police in a number of frontier towns were induced to withdraw and surrender their functions without a struggle by Herr Henlein's Storm Troops, who took over the buildings and places thus affected which lie along the frontier beyond the Czech first line defence, and include such as Eger. Asch, Graslitz, Bodenback and Warnsdorf. Even towns further inland, including Marienbad and Carlsbad, fell partly into the hands of the Sudetens, but immediately the Cabinet resigned permanent officials took over control and began to restore authority, which by the evening was generally completed. TTie official Press agency at Berlin states that messages rrom vJarlsbad declare that Czechoslovakia is practically in a state of anarchy. * A message from Trautenau, which is in Sudeten German territory, states that 21 twin-engined Soviet monoplanes, with markings painted over, landed at Pardubice airport and 18 landed at Bohdaetsch.