POLAND EXPELS CZECHS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 9

POLAND EXPELS CZECHS

ALLEGED TERRORISM AND PROPAGANDA

PROTEST TO PRAGUE REPORTED DETERIORATION OF RELATION'S (UNITED PRESS ASgOCIATIOW—COPTRJGHT.) (Received December 26, 8.50 p.m.) WARSAW, December 25. It is reported that Czech-Polish relations are becoming worse, because of the deportation of hundreds of Czechs for alleged attacks on police in Teschen. Poland has protested to Czechoslovakia against the expulsion of Poles from Czechoslovakia, alleged Czech terrorism on the frontiers, and anti-Polish newspaper and radio propaganda. An earlier message said that after two alleged acts of aggression by Czech terrorists, 100 Czechs were expelled from Poland.

PROTECTION FOR STERLING

BRITAIN RENEWS BAN

ON FOREIGN LOANS

SHARP RELAPSE AFTER DECISION

(Received December 26, 7.5 p.m.)

LONDON, December 23,

The authorities’ anxiety about the outlook for sterling and their determination to do their utmost to prevent further undue depreciation in the sterling-dollar rate, is shown by a decision to withdraw the relaxation of the ban on foreign lending. The American authorities’ approval of the protection of the Exchange Equalisation Fund from unnecessary gold losses, is read into a later announcement by Mr Henry Morgenthau, jun. (Secretary to the United States Treasury) that Congress will be asked to authorise an extension of the dollar stabilisation fund.

Sterling relapsed sharply after the first shock of the reintroduction of the ban on lending combined with continued French repatriation of capital, but steadied when nervous selling subsided. A message from New York says that sterling is quoted at 4.661.