UNREST IN EUROPE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18559, 20 November 1934, Page 8

UNREST IN EUROPE

DISTURBING WAR RUMORS LIFE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA A former Dunedin' resident and now a lr.auraLse'i Czech, Airs. it. Pospi.-nl, with her two-year (fid daughter Fitsku, returned to New Zealand by the Tonic. “There is unrest all over Europe,” she .said. “ Von have to In- living there to kiniw how bad it is.' TlmiVj arc rumors of war all the time. That was why 1 was so humous to get away. In the flat asiuM* ours in Prague, ail old lady and gentleman took one. of the war rumors so seriously that they at once spent, nil they could oil storing away supplies' of food and old clothes. ! suppose that instance is fairly typical of the general feeling. "I loved Gzeelio-Slovitkia. it is a beautiful country. As a struggling nation it used to be inclined to be howled down before, but it has been coming on wonderfully well since it was made a new republic. There is a terrific amount of affection for President Masaryk, who is now 80 years old.

“Everybody connects Czecho-Slovakia with shoes. They have, reason to. There are Bata factories now in India, Germany, America and England. I was amazed to see a Bata shop riven in Jamaica. The Bata city, just outside Prague, is flourishing. It has its own tramcars and buses, and even some aeroplanes, in fact, everything that any other well-regulated city has, even although it, is privately owned.”