TANGLED SKEIN IN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 9

TANGLED SKEIN IN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

DIPLOMATIC MOVES. Czech Sub-Division Has Many Sidelights. SURPRISE VISIT TO ROME. I I'rre* Association. < *"p. v ri;rh t. ( Ilfmi vorl 1 |» 111 » !,<>Nl)U\. Ditnhfr -♦». Herr villi Kll>ll<■ 111 Tup'- vi-n I" Homo i» arousing -)>peubil ion. I hi' now- I,l' his departure -til even those ii-ually lif-t informed nil foreign moves. -»y- " I lie I imos IJerlin ciirrc-i'oiiilcni. Tt i- genera lly lir 1 ir\ t< 1 Unit ho lus gone Tn di-iii-s tin' j>ri >11 If lii nt t lie Hungarian tnmoritv in ( /echoslov akia. especially the proposal tor a common I'oli-h and Hungarian frontier, which i- 1 supported l>v Italy lmt not favoured by

The "Daily Telegraph" Warsaw correspondent says it is reported from Kaunus that Herr Hitler sent a memorandum to Dr. Smetona. Lithuanian President, offering him a I~> years' lionaggression pact, including a frontier guarantee on the following conditions: — lit That Lithuania renounces the non-ag;irc«sjon pact with the Soviet. (•2| That she revises the existing trade agreement- so as to direct all agricultural export- exclusively to <terniaiiv in exchange tor German goods. C( i That -he transforms Meniel ili<trict into a tree zone similar to Danzig. Lithuania i- asked to reply before the end of tin- year. Czechs Reply to Hungary. Dr. (hvalkov-ky. Czech Foreign Minit-ter. handed to the Hungarian Minister the ( z.'ch reply accepting Hungarian demand for the occupation of di-trict* ees-ion of which was mutually agreed to. but -iigge-ting thai a week i- in-ufliciciit tn remove material. Accordingly, lie pinpo-es consultation by Czech and Hungarian military authorities. The Czechs also accept the principle of Itu lot icrnia 11 arbitration regarding districts which Hungary claimed but the Czechs refused. I'ltc reply adds that the Czechs in-ist that Rumania also be consulted if Roland is brought in arbitration in accordance with the Hungarian suggestion. MM. Backin-ky and Reavy. Ruthenian Ministers in the Czech Cabinet, have resigned. considering that the Cabinet decii-ion* are a sacrifice of the interests of Carpathian Ruthenians. Dr. Brodic. F'utlieniau Premier, has also resigned. M. Karniasin. German representative in the Slovak Cabinet. asked permission to attend the C../cch-Hungarian negotiations. on the grounds that derma n minorities claim a voice in their own disposal. HITLER IN VIENNA. Report of Visit to Former Austrian Chancellor. RUMOUR NOT CONFIRMED. (Received 10.30 a m.) VIENNA. October ><>. Herr Hitler visited the Hotel Metropole. An unconliimed report says that he saw Dr. Schuschnigg. former Austrain Chancellor. It is believed that Herr Hitler iremaining in Vienna until the Hun garian-Slovak frontier is settled.