TENSION GROWING
CZECHS AND SLOVAKS
SEPARATIST M OVEMENT
SUPPORT OF GERMANY
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March G, 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 5. The Prague correspondent of The Times says that tension has been growing between Prague and Bratislava, but is temporarily interrupted, and negotiations are being resumed to-morrow.
Meanwhile the Slovak Separatist tendencies, which Germany is believed to support, retard the consolidation of the Slovak Republic, on which Herr Hitler insists as a preliminary to guaranteeing the Czechoslovak frontiers.
Members of the Hlinka Guard, which is regarded as the nucleus of the Slovak army, mishandled Roman Catholic priests and* ransacked Jewish shops at the famous health resort of Pistany.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 7
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111TENSION GROWING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 7
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