FRONTIER CLASH
CZECHS AND HUNGARIANS FIGHTING IN VILLAGES LONDON, Dec. 19 The Vienna correspondent of the Times, says an official message from Bratislava, states that Hungarian regular and irregular forces engaged Czechoslovak soldiers at Slanek, Eastern Czechoslovakia. The irregulars opened fire, and the regulars reinforced them. They occupied the villages of Muzmise, Silvas, Slanek and Kalsa, but tho Czechoslovaks threw them out with the loss of two Customs officers and one wounded soldier. As a result,- M. Tiso, leader of the Slovaks, ordered the. Slovak Frontier Commission to interrupt the negotiations with Hungary regarding frontier demarcation until satisfaction is obtained.
Viennese official quarters see significance 'in the coincidence of the engagement, with, the of Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, to Budapest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23226, 21 December 1938, Page 14
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