COMMUNIST MOVE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12486, 21 October 1938, Page 4

COMMUNIST MOVE

IN CENTRAL EURopp ACTION AGAINST GERBj^ ALLEGED DOCUMENT Loudon, tw The Rome correspondent of I Exchange news service gav* papers this afternoon will a document reported to w,? 115 - obtained from the Comintern n cow. ordering Ruthonian Cnn,,. ists, in the event of a no for autonomy, to seek alliance £ other political parties in order 1 defend the workers of Cental P “ ope against Germany, which i s 4r ‘ tempting to seize territories to a! ' able easier attacks on the Sovk?' It is suggested that PublicationL the document will afford Italy anJ Germany an excuse for openly si pi)rting Hungarian annexation T, .Ini then in. 0[

A Berlin message states Unit Slo. vak and Rutbenian leaders yyu have been negotiating with the Hun Syrians at Komorn. arrived at Berchtesgadeu to see Herr Hiller The Polish Foreign Minister. Colonel Beck, has gone to Rumania to see King Carol and to consult the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Rj s believed he is seeking support for the transfer of Rutheuia, the eastern State of Czechoslovakia, to Hungary. ' Colonel Beck is strongly opposed to a free Rutheuia on the borders of Poland and the Ukraine.

The Times says it understands the' British Government supports Hungary’s claims against the Czechs, based purely on ethnological grounds. The Warsaw correspondent ot The Times says Polish circles declare that in addition to attempting to secure King Carol's support for the transfer of Ruthenia to Hungary, which would automatically give Poland the common frontier with Hungary she desires, Colonel Beck is also aiming at creating the necessary conditions for a new group consisting of Poland, Hungary and Rumania—a grouping based upon community of interests, both political and economic, in a region with a population exceeding 60,000,000.

This community of interests, it is emphasised, would not be directed against Germany, but Germany's luke-warmness toward the scheme is indicated. It does not conform to Berlin’s aims of forcible penetration jn south-eastern Europe. The Times, discussing the suggestion that Colonel Beck is endeavouring to gain King Carol’s support for a plan of division of Ruthenia, between Poland and Hungary and Rumania, believes that Colonel Beck’s ambition is common Polo-Hungarian frontier supported by Italy. ■lt understands authoritatively that Germany is not enthusiastic, for economic and strategic reasons. “Angriff,” the Berlin paper, issued a warning that Poland’s and the Ruthenian claims were no concern ot Rumania. . M. Kaunas, the Polish Minister, protested most strongly to Lithuania against “persecution of Poles ami Chauvinistic incidents occurring m Lithuania.” .