SECOND EDITION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 16

SECOND EDITION

CZECHS AGREE MUNICH TERMS GERMAN GAINS VAST EAW MATEBIALS BADIUM, IRON, COAL By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 1. 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 30 It is officially announced from Prague that the Czechoslovak Government has accepted the terms drawn up at Munich yesterday by the representatives of Britain, France, Germany and Italy for the cession of the Sudeten territory to Germany. The official statement was that the Government, after considering the decisions taken without and , against them, had no alternative but to accept. Mr. Chamberlain, who met Herr Hitler at 11.30 "this morning, left him at 12.40. He departed for London at 2 p.m. In London, millions fell on their knees this morning to thank God. Soon after 7 a.m. a pilgrimage of people quietly filed into Westminster Abbey and the Cathedral, spending a quarter of an hour in prayer of thanksgiving. As the result of the agreement, says a message from Berlin, Germany gains the radium mines of Joachimsthal, large seams of coal, lead deposits, iron and glass ■works, breweries, rich timber belts and thermal spas. If the province of Teschen goes to Poland, the Czechs will lose their richest and most valuable coalfields. The Berlin correspondent of the, British United Press points out that the agreement brings Germany's population from 65,000,000 when Herr Hitler came to power to 79.000,000, the increases being the 3,500,000 inhabitants of Sudetenland and the 7,000,000 Austrians, and the remainder estimated from the rising birthrate.