GERMAN VIEW

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23143, 15 September 1938, Page 13

GERMAN VIEW

CRISIS RESTRICTED TWO PARTIES ONLY MILITARY MOVEMENTS MOBILISATION DENIED NO WAR ON FRANCE By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received September 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14 Rumours of partial mobilisation are categorically denied in Berlin, says a message from the German capital. It is pointed out that the manoeuvres are still being carried on. A German Government spokesman states that the crisis is still one which only directly affects the Sudetens and the Czechs, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

The same correspondent says no official statement has been issued in Berlin about the rioting in Czechoslovakia, but official quarters state that the incidents render imperative the rapid solution urged by Herr Hitler. The evening newspapers continue the anti-Czech campaign with frenzied violence. They accuse the Czechs of shooting defenceless shoppers without reason. No mention is made of Czech casualties in the long and lurid reports of disorders.

Writing from Munich to the Daily Mail, Mr. Ward Price, who is with Herr Hitler and many foreign officers, says: "Should Germany in the last resort deem it necessary to go to the rescue of the Sudetens from oppression, the German Army and Air Force might be ordered to remain entirely on the defensive and not to carry war into French territory. "Tho opinion is held that France would soon weary of campaigning against Germany's new western fortifications."

GERMAN MINORITY DEMAND FOR STATUTE ,HERR HENLEIN'S MISSION BRITISH MEDIATORS BUSY (Received September 1-1, 6.20 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14 It is authoritatively stated in Paris that Herr Henlein will go to Prague to-day at the head of a delegation to ask Dr. Benes, Czech President, to fix finally a statute for the German minority, says the French correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

The British mediator, Viscount Runciman, and the Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, have gone to Asche for a conference with tho Sudeten leaders, who announce that Herr Henlein later to-day will demand a plebiscite, says a message from Prague.