HUNGARIAN CLAIMS

Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 9

HUNGARIAN CLAIMS

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE EXPECTED DISCUSSIONS TAKING PLAGE IN ROME Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 26. The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ Berlin correspondent says: “ A settlement of the Hungarian-Slovak dispute, giving Hungary Kosice and other towns claimed, is likely to emerge from Herr von Ribbentrop’s Rome conversations, but it is expected that Germany will not support the Hungarian claim for Bratislava. It js likely that Italy will abandon tentative support for the Polish and Hungarian claims in Ruthenia, Germany’s objection to a common Polish-Hungarian frontier prevailing. PLIGHT OF CZECH REFUGEES SIROVY TAKING ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES. LONDON, October 26. The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ Prague correspondent says it is suggested that 50 British Legionaries would be most useful in clearing up the terrible plight of refugees. It is essential that refugees crossing Germany en route to other countries should be accompanied. There is also urgent need of people to scour the three-kilometre no man’s land between the Czech and German troops and assist destitute Jews who are lying in the open, afraid to go either way. Five hundred emigre visas have been issued, but 50,000 are seeking asylum, including 15,000 Jews, Sir Robert Macleay has arrived to act as chairman of the Lord Mayor’s Refugee Committee. The Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times’ says a complete reversal of policy and political thought seems to have occurred in Czechoslovakia. The Nazis are particularly gratified over the increasing anti-Jewish demonstrations and the fact that General Sirovy is taking measures against Jewish refugees, including despatch to concentration

camps. OCCUPATION OF SUDETENLAHD THIRTY GERMAN DIVISIONS. BERLIN, October 27. Major von Wedel, head of the War Office’s Press Department, in an article appearing in a number of German provincial newspapers, for the first time reveals the number of troops employed in the occupation of Sudetenland — namely, 30 divisions (about 450,000 men), of whom half were motorised. Considerable forces were also held in reserve in case the occupation did jiot proceed peacefully. Five hundred military aircraft actually participated in the occupation, but this was “ only a fraction of the machines held ready and which could immediately have been brought into action if war developed.” Hundreds of anti-aircraft batteries wore placed in position around the whole frontier, so that “Soviet and Czech bombers could hardly have succeeded in penetrating Germany.” Precautions were also taken against AngloFrench attacks. He added that the new western fortification was capable of protecting Germany from any land attack. Necessary measures could also be taken against air attack.