GERMAN TROOPS HELPING SUDETENS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 9

GERMAN TROOPS HELPING SUDETENS.

SITUATION GRAVE.

Fatal Clashes Reported On Frontier. CUSTOMS GUARD ATTACKED. T nilod Tress Association.—Copyright. i Received 2 p.m.) LOXDOX, this day. German Black Guards and Storm Troopers are reported to be assisting Sudeten infiltration on western and northern Czechoslovakia. The situation is very grave at Asch, Rumburg and Warnsdorf. Twenty-one Czech soldiers and officials are reported killed, 4o injured and 41 taken prisoner in the week ended Tuesdav last. rhe British Lnited Press correspondent in Prague says it is reported that members of the Free Corps, who crossed tlie frontier into the Asch area, proclaimed that the district had been annexed to Germany. Reports reaching Prague are that the Czechs resisted and eight were killed. The Sudeten Free Corps reinforcements, after crossing the frontier in lorries at nipht, reached Haslau, four miles from Oberlolima. outside Franzenbad, and barricaded the roads in preparation for checking the Czech troops approaching Franzenbad. In connection with the reoccupation of Sudetenland 120 lorryloads of troops left Prague in the direction of Carlsbad. Military guards protect all public buildings in the capital. As the result of skirmishes the main body of the Czechs withdrew from Haslau to Tirschnitz and are concentrating on the suburbs of Eger, whitfi the Czechs now again control. One of the 17 Czech police captured and taken across the frontier escaped to Czechoslovakia. Germans took over the Customs house at Bressuitz after capturing 10 police and eight soldiers. Sudetens attacked the Customs guard at Liebenau, near Brno, and shot the commandant and took prisoner officials, rhev attacked with hand grenades and machine-guns a Czech school at Nikolsburg. while four were killed and 12 wounded in a fight between the Czechs and Sudetens at Freiwaldau. Czechs shot three Sudetens at Hablakadrau and Czech police shot five Sudetens at Zeidler. The German news agency at Dresden reports that railway communication on 10 sections between Germany and C'zechoslbvakia has stopped since midnight, allegedly because railway bridges and tracks were blown up. BRITISH STATESMEN. AUDIENCES WITH KING. RUGBY, September 23. Hie King gave separate audiences to the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, and Earl Baldwin.