ALL SHE WANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 9

ALL SHE WANTS

GERMAN SEIZURE

SUDETENLAND AREAS

DISCUSSIONS FUTILE

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.

LONDON, October 12,

. The diplomatic correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says that the discussions of the International j Sudetenland Commission have become so futile that the Czechs prefer to negotiate direct with Berlin in tlie hope of reaching -a practical compromise. Germany, however, is taking everything that was claimed in the Godesberg ultimatum which is of a strategic and economic character. It is now apparent that Germany is taking towns like Trubau, in which there are 5000 Czechs and 200 Germans, because of its valuable chemical industry, and refusing impoverished districts in which Germans are in the majority. * The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Herald" says that Britain has washed her hands of the Czechs and is no longer even interested in what terms Germany imposes. FATE OF REFUGEES. The Prague correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that, despite Czech assurances that democratic German or Jewish refugees from the Sudetenland would not be obliged to return to their homes, it is estimated that 20,000 have already been driven back with the utmost severity into the territory from which they fled to escape the fate which has now unquestionably befallen them. That fate was clearly indicated by Herr Henlein, broadcasting on. October 8, when he said that his political opponents did not deserve mercy and would receive none. "We shall imprison them until they turn back," he said. "All who have fled and have subsequently returned will be treated in the same way." Herr Kessler, the Democratic Sudeten. German Mayor of Bodenbach, declares that many of these Democratic refugees are being mercilessly transported to the German occupied areas. At some centres, such as Pilsen and Kladno.they are being rounded up at the point of the bayonet, herded into trucks, and sent back to their fate. More than 100,000 German refugees are encamped near Prague, the total throughout the country being between 250,000 and 500,000. GERMAN DEMOBILISATION. The partial demobilisation of the German army announced By Herr Hitler on October 9 will begin on October 18, and it is anticipated that, by the end of the month, the army will be back to its usual peace-time footing.