CZECH OFFER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23042, 20 May 1938, Page 11

CZECH OFFER

SUDETEN GERMANS REFUSAL PREDICTED FEW DEMANDS MET DISORDERS IN COUNTRY RIVAL FACTIONS CLASH By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 19, 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 19 Herr Ernst Kundt, a leading Sudeten German member of the Czech Parliament, met the Prime Minister, Dr. Hodza, yesterday and is reported to have told him the Sudeten German Party would reject the proposed new minorities statute, says a message from Prague. Herr Kundt admitted he had not yet received an official copy of the statute, but said Herr Henlein had been given a good idea of it while in London. The statute lind not met five per cent of their demands, added Herr Kundt. The Sudeten Germans demanded precisely the same rights as the Czechs, including local self-govern-ment, local police and local finances. Three members of the Sudeten German Party and three Czechs were ■wounded in disorders which started in the village of Crebenice, northern Bohemia, says the Pragufe correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Fifty members of the German Athletic Association marched through the streets shouting: "Heil, Hitler!" and clashed with a number of Czechs. Disorders spread through the district and the gendarmerie intervened.