FINAL GERMAN OFFER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1938, Page 9

FINAL GERMAN OFFER

Czech Responsibility if Refused :■

LONDON, September 25. It is semi-ofMally stated in Berlin that the German memorandum to Czechoslovakia contains nothing' more than proposals for securing1 and accomplishing' the things already conceded to Germany, It is emphasised in Berlin that "nobody should deceive himself that the German proposals for a peaceful realisation of a condition already created by right are not final. They must toe considered the last German bid for peace. To decline the proposals is thereby to assume responsibility for all further consequences. If they are agreed to peace will be maintained." The memorandum adcis that all Sudeten areas in which there are more than 70 per cent, of Germans will be occupied immediately after expiry of the time limit. Other districts in which there is a lesser percentage of Germans shall hold a plebiscite, after which the exchange of the Czech and German populations will be carried oiit. Germany agrees to guarantee the new Czech frontier if Poland and Hungary also give a, similar guarantee. A COMPROMISE PLAN. Meanwhile the Paris correspondent of "The Times" says it is understood that when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador, saw M. Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, late last night, he announced that the British Government had submitted another compromise plan to Prague, entailing the immediate occupation of a narrow strip of Czech frontier territory by German troops. The Paris correspondent of the "News Chronicle" says that Sir Basil Newton, British Minister in Prague, handed the compromise plan to Dr. Krofta ten minutes after the general mobilisation was ordered in Czechoslovakia. The plan asks the Czechs to allow the German army to "symbolically occupy" a ten-mile-wide strip of Sudeten territory, pending arrangements'for the transfer of the territory. An English broadcast from Prague yesterday announced that the Czech Government was studying the German terms. With regard to the Godesberg talks, it is reliably learned that Herr Hitler and Mr. Chamberlain exchanged four letters, Herr Hitler denied an occupation of Sudeten territory, whereupon the British Legation checked reports of conditions in Eger and Asch and found them incorrect. They were satisfied that the position was rts the Germans described it. NO ACCEPTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION. Herr Hitler made it clear that ho would not aocept an international commission to draw up new boundaries and emphasised that he wanted full occupation by October 1. German circles describe the communique issued at Godesberg as a plain document of pence, significantly contrasting it with the Czech mobilisation order, They continually speak of the friendly atmosphere in which they claim the conference between Herr Hitler and Mr, Chantberlain closed, and bitterly attack "the incredible Irresponsibility and war feeling which dominate the dictator" ship 3d Prague." The newspapers take a similar line.