GERMAN TROOPS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 14 June 1939, Page 7

GERMAN TROOPS

IN NORTHERN SLOVAKIA CONCENTRATION ON POLISH FRONTIER -IN ACCORDANCE WITH AGREEMENT” UFA LONDON. 12th June. As Herr Hitler arrived in Vienna, unexpectedly to attend the "Germ i Theatre Week,” German troops arc reported to be concentrating at the Polish borders in northern Slovakia. They are building fortifications. The Slovak delegation, which is negotiating for a new trade agreement, is staying in the same hotel as Herr Hitler. WARNING TO POLAND A message from Berlin states that German officials admit troop movements near the Slovak border, but they claim that these are in accordance with the German-Slovak treaty, signed in March, permitting Germany to occupy the mountainous zone between Moravia and Slovakia. The Foreign Office’s publication, "Diplomatic Political Correspondence.” fiercely attacks Poland’s unconciliatory attitude to Germany, which, it declares, ie becoming more pronounced, obviously as a result of the British encirclement policy. It adds that insults against Germany are a daily occurrence, and the Germans in Poland are continually

oppressed. The Polish tactics toward Danzig show clearly the perilous course the Poles arc steering. NAZI INFLUENCE IN BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA The "Daily Express” says that a drastic extension of the Nazi influence in Bohemia and Moravia is beginning. Germany requires 7000 young Czech officers to train German soldiers in the use of the Czech weapons which Germany confiscated after taking over the Protectorate. Germany is planning to equip 20 German divisions with them. The Czechs doubt whether Germany will abolish the Protectorate and incorporate it in the Reich. They are using the Protectorate to secure foreign currency and have already asked France to prolong the preferential tariff on Czech goods. This would be dropped if the Protectorate’s legal independence were wiped out.

The Gestapo have discovered a secret Czech station which has been broadcasting anti-Nazi propaganda. The broadcasters fled after attaching a recorded announcement on a time machine to the transmission apparatus, which was erected in a forest.