THE SUDETENS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1938, Page 5

THE SUDETENS

RUMOURED SPLIT

DENIED BY PARTY.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, Sep. 17. A Berlin message reports that the Sudeten leaders, having issued a manifesto denouncing ..Czech hostility agains't non-Czech institutions, uphold the right of the Sudetens to lake up arms, because “a state of extreme need luu arrived.”

Herr Henlein, according to the Official News Agency, has ordered the formation of a Sudeten volunteer corps along the frontier.

Reuters Berlin correspondent says it is stated that the Sudeten headquarters, which is now located secretly in Eger, will shortly be moved to another town. German sources do not confirm the Sudeten Party split. Herr Henlein i 8 reported to •be still in Germany.

Tlie German Official News Agency, asserts that the Sudetens were not dissolved, but merely ceased to function.

The. German press mostly continues' to subordinate Mr Chamberlain’s mission to columns of lurid stories of Czech atrocities, while the denunciation of Czechs is unabated. The latest banner line in “Volkischer Boebacliter” reads: “Criminal Benes prohibits Sudeten Party.” The German Official News Agency reports that a fugitive mother aiid five children were all shot by "Czech frontier guards.

The .“Borsen Zeitung” declares thajt Czechs lovakia in her death agony, and is morally dead already. An official Czech news agency has

issued the following; “Proceedings have been instituted against Herr Hcnlein under Paragraphs One and Three of the law fpr the protection of the republic, which deals with threats and attempts against the security of the State. Tlie report that a warrant was issued for the arrest of Herr Henlein is untrue.” , '

The only incident during last night Was the shooting of a Sudeten who failed to obey an order to stop his motor-car.

Six thousand distressed Social P.eqioerats have tied to Prague from.Sufletenland. Two Czech soldiers are reported to have been killed at Butaenguen. The Sudeten, area is quieter after last night’s incidents. Two thousand attempted to cross the German border at YVernsdorf, but were turned back by the Czech guards. Dr ißenes received >a 'delegation from the Slovak Party. It reported that they had broken away from the Sudetens and offered conditionally to co-operate with the Government in a coalition. J Sudeten Party badges and uniforms are now. illegal. The Government decree ordering 63 districts to surrender arms has beeu extended to 33 additional districts in Aloravia and Silesia, some of which are wholly Czech. Hungary has protested against the partial Czechoslovakian mobilisation near her border as unwarranted. The Prague correspondent of “The Times” says there is no news of the German reactions to the dissolution of the Sudeten Party or the plans of the Henleinist leaders, who are known to have crossed to Bavaria. There, is popular bewilderment in the Sudeten areas over what is called the flight of the leaders.