NEW CLASHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23112, 10 August 1938, Page 13

NEW CLASHES

SUDETEN GERMANS FIGHTS WITH CZECHS PASSIONS REAWAKEN FATAL STABBING AFFRAY By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, August 8 Passions are reawakening in the Sudeten districts, says the Prague correspondent of the Daily Mail. Czechs attacked three Sudetens at Glasgerwald after a quarrel in a public-house - and fatally stabbed Wenzel Baierle. A fight between Czechs and Sudetens at Saaz resulted in 13 being injured Czechs at Unterpolaun manhandled and kicked a chauffeur,. retaining his clothes as trophies, and attacked a gymnast. Soldiers in lorries fired at waj'sido trees, scaring harvesters. TALKING FOR TIME PRAGUE NEGOTIATIONS" LORD RUNCIMAN'S MISSION AUGUST THE DANGER MONTH LONDON, August 4 Behind Mr. Chamberlain's decision to send Viscount Bunciman to Prague stands Sir Horace Wilson, who played an important part behind the scenes in initiating the Anglo-Italian talks, says the Spectator. Sir Horace is nominally the British Government's chief industrial adviser. He regards the Czech problem in terms of an industrial dispute. This view is reflected in Mr. Chamberlain's description of Lord Bunciman's mission: "He is-in the position of a man going to assist in settling a strike." Whitehall considers that Lord Bunciman will, at least, carry the negotiations over the danger month of August and give time for cooler counsels to prevail. The fact that Lord Bunciman understands no Czech and not too much German will help to spin out negotiations. BLOC FOR PEACE UNITING GREAT POWERS PROPOSED CZECH GUARANTEE LONDON, August 4 Whether what is called Mr. Chamberlain's dream for uniting Europe's great Powers in a mighty bloc for the establishment of peace and order may be at least partly crystallised in Viscount Runciman's mission to Prague, is a question being asked in London. Although Mr. Chamberlain has insisted that Lord Bunciman is merely an observer, an "honest broker" between the opposing parties, it is suggested that lie may propose to both sides that the Sudeten Germans should be granted the largest measure of autonomy possible without the actual dismembering of the Czechoslovakian State. In order to overcome the genuine Czech fears on the question whether such a proposal would not threaten the very existence of their independence, Britain may propose that, a Four-Power guarantee of the present Czechoslovakian frontier should be given by Britain, France, Germany and Italy. This might be negotiated at a conference at which Germany's demands would be discussed and an attempt made to reach a general agreement, covering colonies, arms limitations and economic co-operation. Meanwhile, Germany's attitude is interpreted as meaning that Herr Hitler intends to scare Europe out of any possible belief that his original approval of Lord Bunciman's mission should be taken to indicate readiness for a settlement, except on the most favourable terms to the Sudeten Germans. BIOGRAPHY BANNED i LATE DR. MASARYK BERLIN, August 8 The Chief of the Secret Police, Herr Himinler, has banned throughout Germany the biography of Dr. Masaryk, late President of Czechoslovakia,' written by Josef Hofbauer and published in Russia in the German language.