A Report Contradicted

Northern Advocate, 21 July 1938, Page 2

A Report Contradicted

'.Received 3 p.m.) ! RUGBY. July 20. j According to -a statement in the House of Commons by Mr Chamberlain, independent information in the possession of Britain contradicts the suggestion that troop movements were in progress in Czechoslovakia at the end of last week. In the House of Commons on Monday. Mr Chamberlain said Britain had heard from the Czechoslovakian Government that there was no truth in reports of abnormal troop movements. Today he was asked by Mr Arthur Henderson whether, with a view to preventing similar misapprehensions to that recently caused by statements Issued by a German official news agency, the Government would propose that a neutral commission of observers be sent to border districts of Czechoslovakia and Germany. The Prime Minister replied: •‘Czechoslovakia recently granted facilities for the attachment of two observers to the British Legation at Prague. I may say j that these observers at once visited 1 the areas mentioned in recent reports, j and found no evidence of abnormal troop movements. "In those circumstances, an international commission would perhaps be superfluous.” . I