PRAGUE ARRESTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7

PRAGUE ARRESTS

FRIEND OF BENES TROOPS LEAVING CITY RAPID MOVE EASTWARD PARTS CABINET POWERS “BACKS TO THE WALE” (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Mar. 20, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 19. Messages from Prague state that arrests continue. Those apprehended include a member of the Czech Parliament, Professor Jan de Kozak, who is a friend of Dr. E. Benes, the late President. M. Hinterhoff, the head of the Polish news agency is also among those arrested. The Bucharest correspondent of the News Exchange says that the majority of the German troops quartered in Prague left the city and are rapidly moving eastwards. The disarmed Czech army is rigorously coniined to bai'racks. A Bucharest message states that troops crowd the north-western Rumanian roads leading to the Hungar-ian-Ruthcnian frontiers. Additional troops sent to the latter frontier number 100,000. Paris . messages state that the French Senate voted for the plenary powers requested by the Cabinet by 286 votes to 17. The French Premier, M. Baladier. addressing the Senate regretted the necessity for modifying the 40-hour week law, but said that the country's salvation preceded the convenience of its citizens. Munich Endeavours “I will never admit that I was a sinner in connection with the Munich agreement,” he said. “I did all that was possible to avoid war. Now we are in the last ditch. We will hold it to the last man. “I will not increase the Cabinet, because this is not the time for such negotiations. We must Show Europe that our backs are to the wall.” The Senate Finance Committee by 25 votes to two, to-day approved of the measure granting full powers to the Government after a speech by M. Daladier, in which he declared the position adopted by England and France gave them to-day, now the Munich agreement was violated, an incomparable moral force. The French Cabinet met at C. 50 p.m. and considered a draft of the decrees under the plenary powers legislation for ratification to-mor-row. . NO TRUST IN PROMISES ATTITUDE IN NORWAY STRENGTHENING DEFENCES (Reed. March 20, 2.40 p.m.) OSLO, March 19. Dr. Hambro, the president of the Storting, declares that Norway neither asks nor desires a guarantee from any Power, because confidence in such promises was never at a lower ebb. “Norway depends on her own power to defend her neutrality, for which reason the defences are being increased to prevent territorial violation,” he added. POLAND’S INDEPENDENCE MAINTENANCE INTENDED TRIBUTE TO LIBERATOR (Reed. March 20, 2.40 p.m.) WARSAW, March 19. The President of Poland, M. Moscicki, broadcasting from his sick bed, on the birthday of the iate Marshal Pilsudski, emphasised Poland’s military pride and swore to maintain her independence and not entrust her future to anybody’s protection. He extolled Marshal Pilsudski as a liberator. The frontier guards are being augmented.