NEW FRONTIER LINE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 29 November 1938, Page 5

NEW FRONTIER LINE

DISPUTE BETWEEN CZECHS AND POLES SOLDIERS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT SLOVAK ELECTIONS IN JANUARY lU.P.A. By Electric Telegraph—Copy right] (Received 29th November, 9.0 a.m.) PRAGUE, 28th November. J he Polish occupation of Czech territory to-day, instead of on Ist December, led to several incidents because of different interpretations of the frontier line. Most of the disagreements were settled on the spot, but a clash occurred at Javorina, where some soldiers are reported to have been shot. The National Assembly has been summoned for 30th November for the election of the new President, Dr. Emil Hache, who will unite the Czech, Slovak, and Kuthenian votes, except the Communists. Elections for the Slovak Diet have been fixed for 18th January. The newspaper “Venkov” announces that 700,000 Czechs who became German citizens by the cession of the Sudeten areas will vote for Hitler at the Sudeten elections on 4th December, following the example of the Czechs in Vienna who voted for the anschluss. The Slovak Premier, Dr. Tiso, has promised Germans in Slovakia that they will he allowed to use Nazi emblems and that they will he adequately represented in the civil service. SHOT BY STUDENTS ] PROFESSOR OF UNIVERSITY (Received 29th November, 11.25 a.m.) BUCHAREST, 28th November. Professor Stefanes Cugoanga. rector of the Club University, was seriously wounded when he was shot by two students, who are alleged to be members of the Iron Guard. A policeman w.is also killed. QUESTIONS ANSWERED FINAL ADJUSTMENT OF FRONTIER I British Oflicial Wireless 1 (Received 29th November, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, 28th November. A number of questions on Czechoslovakia were answered in the House of Commons to-day. In reply to a question relating to the final adjustment of the frontier which Germany and Czechoslovakia notified to the International Commission on 21st November, Mr R. A. Butler, Foreign Undersecretary, pointed out that it was not stipulated in the Munich Agreement that the final adjustment of the frontier would be basely on purely ethical grounds. As a result of the final adjustment it was understood on the balance that several thousand Czechs, additional to the 580,000 of which the Prime Minister had informed the House on Ist November would be included in German territory. The text of the agreement on the right of option had not been received by Britain. As it had been reached by the GermanCzechoslovak commission, as provided in the Munich Agreement, no further reference to the International Commission at Berlin was required. The Prime Minister. Mr Neville Chamberlain, told the House that he had no information regarding the threatened Polish-Czechoslovak frontier, made as a result of direct agreement between the Polish and Czechoslovak Governments. He had no new statement to make on the British guarantee to Czechoslovakia.

Mr Butler told another questioner that the motor road across Czechoslovakia did 'not fall under any provisions of the Munich Agreement and he was not able to say anything about its ownership.