HUNGARIAN CLAIMS MAY BE MET

Southland Times, Issue 23651, 28 October 1938, Page 7

HUNGARIAN CLAIMS MAY BE MET

GERMANY TO PREVAIL OVER ITALY?

(Received October 27, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. A settlement of the Hungarian dispute with Slovakia, giving Hungary Kosice and the other towns claimed, is likely to emerge from the conversations which the German Foreign Minister (Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop) is having in Rome, says the Berlin correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. It is expected that Germany will not support the Hungarian claim for Bratislava, and it is likely that Italy will abandon her tentative support for the Polish and Hungarian claims to Ruthenia, Germany’s objection to a common Polish-Hungarian frontier prevailing. The Czech Foreign Minister" (M. Chvalkovsky) handed to the Hungarian Minister at Prague the Czech reply accepting the Hungarian demand for occupation of districts the cession of which was mutually agreed upon, but suggesting that a week was insufficient time in which to remove material. Accordingly he proposes a consultation between the Czech and Hungarian military authorities. The Czechs also accept the principle of Italian and German arbitration for the districts which Hungary claimed but which the Czechs refused; but the Czechs insist that Rumania should also be consulted if Poland is to be brought into the arbitration in accordance with the Hungarian suggestion. M. Backinsky and M. Reavy, the Ruthenian Ministers in the Czech Cabinet, have resigned, considering that the Cabinet decisions sacrifice the interests of the Carpathian Ruthenians. Dr Brodie, the Ruthenian Prime Minister, has also resigned. M. Karmasin, the German representative in the Slovak Cabinet, has asked permission to attend the Czech-Hun-garian negotiations on the grounds that the German minority claims a voice in its own disposal. HITLER VISITS VIENNA (Received October 27, 6.30 p.m.) VIENNA, October 27. Herr Hitler visited the Hotel Metropole, and an unconfirmed report states that he saw Dr Kurt Schuschnigg, the former Chancellor. It is believed that he is remaining in Vienna until the Hungarian-Slovakian frontier is settled.