NOT NOW SERIOUS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9

NOT NOW SERIOUS

POLO-NAZI CRISIS. Advice Against Extreme Steps Taken At Warsaw. ENTRY INTO CZECH AREA. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 3 p.m.) LONDON", November 25. The "Daily Telegraph" Berlin correspondent says the Ruthenian problem, which has recently appeared very menacing l , is no longer regarded as serious officially. It is learned that Italy supported the German representations against extreme measures by Poland and Hungary. Hungarian propaganda for anexation of Ruthenia has ceased, therefore it is unlikely that Poland will force a conflict. The Warsaw correspondent of the paper save tlie entry of Polish troops to the ceded Slovak territory to-day coincides with virtual abandonment of the hope of obtaining a common PoloHungarian frontier. A newspaper statement credited to an official eource declares that Hungarians did not know how to take advantage of the exceptionally favourable circumstances repeatedly presented to them. Officially alleging that the Czech authorities assisted an attack on the Polish-Slovak Boundary Commission, m which two Poles were wounded, the Government, says a Warsaw message, announces withdrawal from frontier delimitation and the taking of measures to secure satisfaction. Later Polish troops occupied Czara, on tlie> Slovak-Polish frontier. It haa population of 5000. which the Pole* claim was already ceded in principle and would be occupied on December 1. In the light of latest developments, the talks between Herr Hitler and Kin;r Carol of Rumania are most interesting. It is believed that King Carol declared his opposition to the partition of Rumania because it would increase Hungary s power and the Revisionists' appetite.

A clue a* to which country has the whip hand is seen with the solution of the Danzig question. Present indications are that Germany is dictating tj Poland in this connection.