EUROPE’S DANGER SPOT

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 17

EUROPE’S DANGER SPOT

CZECHOSLOVAKIA FRANCE ALARMED AT GERMANY'S INTENTIONS Prw» Aisociation—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 12. (Received February 13, at 11 a.m.) Tho ‘ Daily Chronicle’s ’ Paris correspondent says responsible circles in Paris are alarmed at the information from various sources suggesting that Germany intends making Czechoslovakia a second Spain, and is plotting to engineer a revolt. She may be smuggling guns to German and Hungarian minorities. Following tbc Spanish precedent, Germany and Hungary would not intervene officially, but would support the revolt with war materials and volunteers, while pretending no intervention. Germany thus hopes to reshape Czechoslovakia without open invasion, which would mean a European war. She seeks to buy off Poland by offering her the Teschen district. Dr Benes had a long conference with tho chief of the French military mission. It is stated in Paris that Germany has seriously miscalculated if she expects France to accept another experience of no intervention. WAR CLOUDS OVER FRONTIERS LONDON, February 12. (Received February 13, at 11 a.m,) Lord Rotherniere, in an article in the ‘ Daily Mail,’ bitterly attacks Czechoslovakia as' “a spurious State in the Central European sham and a perpetual danger to peace, which the Peace Conference was bluffed into creating. That bluff has now been called.” Lord Rothermere adds that the immense development of Germany now threatens the Czechs with retribution. War clouds hang heavy over tho frontiers.