Six Hours' Notice

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 9

Six Hours' Notice

APPEAL FOR CALM

All Windows to be Darkened

(Unijed Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)] 1 (Received September 24, noon.) T XTT^XT o . , OQ LONDON, September 23. The President of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Benes, has ordered mobilisation of the Czech Army to be completed within six hours. The mobilisation order requisitions all horses, motor-cars, and aeroplanes. All telephone communication with Prague has been cut off. ■ • Instructions were broadcast to darken all windows. The^proclamat^ wasJ^uri™* if was stations at 10.40 p.m. in Czech, German, Hungarian, Slovak, Rutheman, Poish, and Finnish It was stated: keep calm and remain faithful and reliable. Your struggle.as one for justice and your Fatherland. Long live free Czechoslovakia." The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says that membjrs of the Czech Legation declare that Xc mobilisation order was broadcast all over the country. For tlie firs^ time m.buto^ fbe Czech Army plans to resist invasion, first of all on the hea^^a believing that they can hold the line long enough to enable them to-mobilise »*h'nd it. Once ti^flwt line is lost the army will retire to the border between Bohemia and Moravia, which is shorter, protected by mountains, and h§avily fortified. The Czechs are self-supporting in regard to war material. Notices giving indication of the whereabouts of bombproof and gasproof cellars are appearing^ most of the crowded centres. Workmen are digging trenches where suitable slielter is unavailable. No more gas-masks are left, but the majority of the population are equipped. The Prague correspondent of "The Times" says it is officially reported that Britain and France have guaranteed the Czech frontiers. This apparently means that Britain will he drawn in if Germany attacks Czechoslovakia. A full meeting of the French Cabinet has been called for tomorrow. The Rome correspondent of the British United Press reports that Italians believe-.events have developed so*rapidly that war is inevitable.