GERMAN OCCUPATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 9

GERMAN OCCUPATION

SUDETEN TERRITORY

REPORTED MOVES FOR TODAY

(Received October 1, 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 30

It is officially stated in Munich that the areas Germany is to occupy automatically tomorrow are:—Zone 1: Boundary from Studenhack to Unterhaid, on the Austrian frontier. Zone 2: A strip of territory in North Czechoslovakia south-east of Dresden from Giesing to Zwickau, above Relchneberg and back to the frontier via Josef sthal. Zone 3: From Waldmunchen to the frontier at Katarinaberg. Zone 4: A section of ftorth Czechoslovakia south from Silesia with boundaries from Grulich to the frontier at Jagerndorf.

The first meeting of the International Commission agreed upon at Munich is expected to be held this afternoon. A communique states that it will be composed of the Secretary of State of the German Foreign Office, the Ambassadors of England, France, and Italy, and a representative of Czechoslovakia. Any questions arising out of the transfer of territory will be considered to be within the competence of the Commission. Herr Hitler is expected to appoint a Reich Commissioner. A message from Berlin states that as a result of the agreement Germany gains the radium mines at Joachimsthal, large seams of coal, lead deposits, iron and glass works, breweries, rich timber belts, and thermal spas. If Teschen goes to Poland the Czechs will lose their richest and most valuable coalfields.

The Havas (French) news agency, quoting an authoritative German source, says that the first German troops will cress the Czech border at midnight. It is stated that Herr Hitler is expected to accompany tlie first German troops into the Sudetenland. The Munich correspondent of "The Times" says that it is understood that the district to be occupied on October 1 ip a narrow strip running the full length of the Sudeten German frontier. The Munich correspondent of the "News Chronicle" reports that the agreement is regarded as an almost complete capitulation to Herr Hitler, and that it Is feared there will be panic during the exodhs of Czechs from the Sudeten territory. The Australian Associated Press says that although the full details of the four-Power agreement will not be known before Cabinet meets it is understood it is not a great departure from the original Anglo-French plan. It will include the secession of a few additional small minority areas.