THE NEW MAP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 10

THE NEW MAP

CZECH TERRITORY

GERMANY'S GAIN

EQUAL TO GODESBERG DEMANDS

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.

(Received October 13, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, October 12.

A representative of the Australian Associated Press saw at the Foreign Office the first official map of the Czech territory which has been conceded to Germany by tlie International Commission, and also of the frontier demanded by Herr Hitler at Godesberg. The map, which arrived by air from Berlin today, reveals that the territory allocated to Germany is equal, reckoned in square miles, to what Herr Hitler demanded. Although the two lines are by no means identical, at no place is there mdfre than five miles' difference. The frontier line drawn by the commission favours the Czechs to the south and Germany to the north. It is learned that the International Commission has resumed its sittings and has succeeded in establishing direct negotiations between Czecho-* Slovakia and Germany which possibly will render plebiscites unnecessary.

Sir Neill Malcolm, High Commissioner for German Refugees, from Prague. He is most concerned with the complexities of the refugee problem. While the Czech Government is sympathetic, it will not allow an antiNazi group to form in Prague or to aggravate the employment problems with thousands of workless refugees.

The "Daily Telegraph" says that the concessions to Germany at the Munich Conference were superseded by larger demands made during the meetings of the International Commission. English. French, and Italian resistance to th* exorbitant demands was met by an intimation that Germany would occupy the territory by using force if there was no agreement.