GERMAN MINORITY

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1938, Page 7

GERMAN MINORITY

Shows Independent Trend (Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received May 19, 9.45 p.m.) PRAGUE, May 19. Herr Ernst Kundt, a Sudeten German Deputy, met the Premier of . Czecho Slovakia, M. Hodza, yesterday, and he is reported to have told him that the Sudeten German Party would reject the Premier’s new Minorities • Statute. » Herr Kundt admitted that he had . not yet received an official copy ot the Statute, but he said that Herr Henlein (Sudetan leader) had been given a good idea of it while he was in London. Herr Kundt added that the propost ed Minorities Statute did not meet . five per cent, of the demands of the Sudeten Germans. He said that the ' Sudeten Germans demanded precisely the same rights as the Czechs, including local self-Government, local police, and local finances. Strife in Bohemia GERMANS V. CZECHS. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received May 19, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. The Prague correspondent says: Three Germans belonging to Herr Henlein’s Sudeten supporters and three Czechs were wounded in disorders, which were started in the village of Crebenice, in Northern Bohemia, when fifty members of the German Athletic Association marched through the village streets, shouting “Heil Hitler!” A clash at once occurred with a number of Czechs. The disorders then spread through the district. The Gendarmerie later intervened.