FRONTIER STRIFE IN SLOVAKIA
Clash With Hungarian Troops
FOUR VILLAGES OCCUPIED
Commission's Work Suspended
(UHITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT.) (Received December 20, 11 p.m.) LONDON, December 20. The Vienna correspondent of "The Times" says an official report from Bratislava states that Hungarian regular and irregular forces engaged Czechoslovak soldiers at Slanek in Eastern Czechoslovakia.
The irregular troops opened fire, the regulars reinforcing them. They occupied the villages of Muzmise, Silvas, Slanek, and Kalsa, but the Czechoslovaks threw them out with the loss of two customs officers, one soldier being wounded. As a result, the Slovak Premier (Dr. Tiso) has ordered the Slovak Frontier Commission to interrupt its negotiations with Hungary regarding boundary demarcation until satisfaction is obtained. Viennese official quarters see significance in the coincidence of the i engagement with the visit to Budapest of the Italian Foreign Minister | (Count Ciano).
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22590, 21 December 1938, Page 11
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