TROOPS MASSED ON RUTHENIA BORDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 279, 25 November 1938, Page 7

TROOPS MASSED ON RUTHENIA BORDER.

SEVEN DIVISIONS.

Polish-Hungarian Plans For Seizure.

GERMANY STATES TERMS.

Independent fable Service

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, Xovember 24,

The "Evening Standard" savs that f oland, in conjunction with Hungarv, P ' a,,nin - l(> se ' ze the remnant of Kuthenia.

They have massed seven divisions on the Rutheniau border with 40,000 more 1 olisli troops on the Rumanian frontier to prevent Rumania assisting Czechoslovakia.

Germany, which hitherto has opposed has now informed Budapest and Warsaw that her objections will be withdrawn if: —

(I) Danzig i s freed from League control, becoming in effect a German citv

(2) Germany is granted a concession to bttild a railway and trunk road to the Rumanian frontier.

Rumania, anxious to preserve the Munich boundaries, warned Britain and France of the plan, and the situation is being discussed at the Paris conference.

Meanwhile, conditions in Kuthenia are reported to be chaotic owing to the activities of bands *>f Hungarian and Polish irregulars.

INTENTION TO RESIGN.

DANZIG COMMISSIONER.

WARSAW, Xovember 24,

The intention of Dr. Karl Burckhardt, who is a Swiss, to resign the Danzig High Commissionership is announced by a pro-Government newspaper from Danzig.

The paper adds that the office of High Commissioner will be liquidated, making Danzig independent of the League o? Nations, upon which the Statute will be replaced bv an agreement between Poland and Germany.

CRISIS IN HUNGARY.

RESIGNATION OF PREMIER.

HI DAPEST. November 24,

After the Government of Hungary was defeated on a no-confidence motion liv 1 l.i votes to !».">. the Prime Minister, Dr. Imredy. resigned, luit at present his resignation lias not been accepted.