TENSION GROWS IN TESCHEN
Polish Troop Movements
(Received December 15, 4.30 p.m.)
LONDON, December 15. The Prague correspondent of “The Times” savs that tension is growing in the Tescheu area, which Poland recently acquired from Czechoslovakia. Traffic on the Polish-Czechoslovakian frontier bias stopped. Large Polish troop movements are occurring and. the Poles ate evacuating many factories and moving machines and raw materials to flic interior. Army officers are replacing civil servants and the treatment of German and Czech minorities is becoming harsher.
A message published yesterday stated that Polish State officials had left the recently-occupied Teschen area following the withdrawal of Polish troops who mutinied last weekend. It is reported that the district may either be returned to Czechoslovakia or over by the Germans.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 71, 16 December 1938, Page 11
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