MUNICH SEQUELS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23208, 30 November 1938, Page 13

MUNICH SEQUELS

CZECHS IN GERMANY NOW DOMESTIC MATTER THE BRITISH, GUARANTEE "NO NEW STATEMENT" By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright British Wireless RUGBY, Nov. 28 In reply to a question in the House of Commons, to-day relating to the final frontier line which Germany and Czechoslovakia notified to the International Commission on November 21, the Foreign UnderSecretary, Mr. R. A. Butler, said it was not stipulated in the Munich agreement that the adjustment of the frontier fihould be based on purely ethical grounds.

As the result of the final adjustment it was understoqdvjthat the balance of several thousand Czechs, additional to the 580,000, of whom the Prime Minister had informed the House on November 1, would be included in German territory. The text of the agreement on the right of option had not been received by Britain. As it had been reached by the German-Czechoslovak Commission as provided in the Munich agreement, no further reference to the International Commission at Berlin was required.

The Prime Minister tolcl the House that he had no information regarding the threatened Polish invasion of Ruthenia, and recalled that the changes in the Polish-Czechoslovak frontier were made as a result of direct agreement between the Polish and Czechoslovak Governments. He had no new statement to make on the British guarantee to Czechoslovakia. Mr. Butler told another questioner that the motor road across Czechoslovakia did not fall under any provisions in the Munich agreement, and he was not able to say anything about its ownership.

CZECH FRONTIER GERMANS DENY REPORT ALLEGED MOBILISATION "PLAN TO OCCUPY COUNTRY" LONDON, Nor. 29 The German Ministry of Propaganda completely denies a story of mobilisation published in the News Chronicle, which it describes as "ridiculous." The article in question said: "It is reliably reported that Germany is secretly mobilising three Army Corps on the Czech frontier, it is believed as a reply to the persistent agitation of Poland and Hungary for the annexation of Ruthenia in order to give them a common frontier, which Germany opposes. Six divisions are reported to have been already - completely mobilised and the remaining three to be in the process of'mobilisation. "Well informed persons suspect that Herr Hitler wishes to hold his hand until some incident prompts the proGerman elements in the Czech, Slovak and Ruthenian Governments to call for Germany's armed support, thus giving her a pretext for overrunning the whole country and occupying Prague."

SUDETEN REFUGEES PARTY BEACHES LONDON (Received November 29, 5.5 p.m.) ™ LONDON, Nov. 28 One hundred and three. Sudeten refugees, most of them women and children, have arrived in London to join relatives.