CRISIS ENDED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 7

CRISIS ENDED

REVOLT IN SLOVAKIA STRICT POLICE CONTROL PROTESTS TO GERMANY RESTRICTED MARTIAL L.AW (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 11, 2.30 p.m.) PRAGUE, March 10. The Slovak crisis appears to have been temporarily ended. M. Sidor has gone to Bratislava and is expected shortly to present suggestions for a new autonomous Slovak Cabinet. It is authoritatively .stated that martial law is confined to Plstany, the police and military maintaining order elsewhere. The railway stations are guarded and newspapers arc not being published. People are forbidden to listen to foreign broadcasts. A Bratislava message states that four Hlinka Guards were wounded in attempting to storm the former headquarters which the military occupied. A Berlin report says it is semiofficially confirmed thai M. Ti.so's Government protested to Germany. M. Durcanski arrived in Berlin with the German minority leader, M. Kamarsin. Prague reports state that Hinkia Guards occupied the Bratislava radio station, but later withdrew. In Budapest demonstrations are reported to continue in Bratislava, where M. Kamarsin, before leaving for Berlin, said: "The German National Group stand under the protection of Herr Hitler. It will make common cause with the Slovaks." M Murgac, chief of the Hlinka Guard political, section, issued a proclamation that the Slovaks had been betrayed to the Czech-Bolshevist terror and appealed for unity with the German minority to turn out the Czech traitors and free Slovakia. Another message from Bratislava states that the military authorities arrested M. Disor on his arrival. M. Durcanski, broadcasting, declared that he was the only legai spokesman of Slovak nationals, called on Slovaks to resist the terrorist Czech usurpers, and assured his followers that the Germans were supporting them.