REPORTED TEXT

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

REPORTED TEXT

Area to be Handed Over

WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS

Plebiscite in Some Districts

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received September 26,11 a.m.)

LONDON, September 25. Following Mr. Chamberlain's talks with Herr Hitler at Godesberg, it is announced tihat a new compromise plan for a solution of the Sudeten dispute has been handed to the Czech Government. The proposals are contained in the German memorandum which was presented to Mr, Chamberlain by Herr Hitler at the conclusion of their conversations. Dr, Dietrich, the Reich Press chief, told the "Daily Mail" that Herr Hitler, in his memorandum, undertakes not to use force for a few days. The memorandum lays down his scheme far the evacuation of the Sudeten territory by the Czechs and the occupation by German troops by a series of progressive movements, in much the same way as German troops evacuated Alsace-Lorraine. British and German differences are stated to be not on matters of principle but on. methods. If the Czechs are reasonable and consent to evacuate the Sudeten territory already allotted to Germany by the Anglo-French plan, there will be no conflict. The Press Association states that it has obtained the full text of Herr Hitler's plan from an authoritative source, and other news ageitcies are issuing a similar text. It is stated by the Press Association that the plan contains the following points:-— The withdrawal of the whole of the Czech armed forces, police* and Customs officials, and frontier guards from an area which is to be handed over on October 1. The Czech Government to discharge immediately all Sudetens serving with the military forces and the police in Czech territory and permit them to go home. The Czechs to liberate all political prisoners of the German people. The evacuated territory to be handed over in its present condition. The German Government agrees that a plenipotentiary representative of the Czech Government and army should be attached to the headquarters of the German military forces to deal with details of the evacuation. The German Government agrees to a plebiscite in areas requiring a clear definition, before November 25 at the latest. Alterations to the new frontier arising out of the plebiscite will be settled by a GermanCzech or International commission. The plebiscite will be carried out under the control of an international commission. So far there is no official intimation regarding the fate of the plan. The Press Association states that it is learned that the general view in Prague is that the proposals are neither feasible nor acceptable. The French Foreign Office states that Mr. Chamberlain sent Herr Hitler's memorandum to Czechoslovakia without comment. It is understood that no pressure is being exerted on Czechoslovakia to accept. The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Czechs regard the proposals as wholly unacceptable, and that the same view was very vigorously expressed at meetings of the British Cabinet in the past 48 hours, It being conceded that it was for the Prague Governanent to express its views without being hampered. The *'Daily Telegraph" discloses that the Prague Government has authorised the publication of Herr Hitler's memorandum. Reuters' representative in Prague reports that the Government is sitting continuously considering the memorandum. The Czech Minister in London, M, Masaryk, called at the Foreign Office and delivered the Czech reply to the Godesberg plan. The "Daily Mail" says that in presenting the reply to Mr. Chamberlain M. Masaryk explained that Czechoslovakia is unable to accept the proposals, as they go far beyond the Anglo-French proposals.