SUDETEN AIMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23101, 28 July 1938, Page 13

SUDETEN AIMS

MEDIATOR WELCOME BERLIN OPINIONS BRITISH INFLUENCE PRESTIGE AT STAKE FUTURE OF EUROPE By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright (Received July 'J7, r,.r> p.m.) LONDON July -7 The Sudeten fierman party welcomes Viscount Kunciman as mediator and promises detailed information as to its aims with the view to arriving at a satisfactory settlement, says a message from Prague. The Berlin press welcomes Lord Runciman with enthusiasm, as being likely to assist Herr Henlein. Field-Marshal Coering's newspaper the National Xeitung, says: "Mr. Chamberlain undoubtedly wishes to stake his whole personal influence and the British Kmpire's prestige on the (lulling of a solution of the Czech question. The British attitude in this matter will determine whether his farreaching intentions —a general Kurojiean appeasement —will he fulfilled.' Dr. (loebbels' paper, Der Angriff, says: "Lord Kiincinian may count on Germany's good wishes, but the Czechs are an obdurate and untrustworthy people in negotiations, and possibly far stronger pressure may lie needed to compel the Prague Government to make the concessions which have now become inevitable." TROUBLE IN DANZIG NAZIS ATTACK JEWS EXPROPRIATING PROPERTY (Received July -S, 110 a.m.) LONDON July '_>7 A new anti-.lewish campaign has o|M'iied in Danzig with the object of expropriating industrial property, says the Warsaw correspondent of the .Manchester Guardian. The .Nazis are supervising all .'Jewish metal firms and the owners are either being arrested hecause of the expropriation or driven to suicide. Herr Max Chaschall, a director of the oldest metal firm in the Free City, jumped from a window and was killed, just as the police arrived to arrest him. Three other directors have been imprisoned by the Gestapo. German firms operating in Poland have been ordered not to deal with Jews. The newspapers are asking why Nazi laws can he enforced in Poland hv Germans who are Polish citizens.