TENSION GROWS IN TESCHEN

Southland Times, Issue 23693, 16 December 1938, Page 5

TENSION GROWS IN TESCHEN

Troop Movements By Poland OFFICERS REPLACE CIVIL SERVANTS ATTITUDE TO MINORITIES BECOMING HARSHER (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 15, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 15. Tension is growing in Poland’s new-ly-acquired Teschen area, says the Prague correspondent of The Times. Traffic on the Polish-Czechoslovakian frontier has been stopped. Extensive Polish troop movements are occurring. The Poles are evacuating many factories and are moving machines and raw materials to the interior.

Army officers are replacing civil servants, and Poland’s treatment of the German and Czech minorities is becoming harsher. NAZI RISING FAILS IN HUNGARY ATTEMPT FORTNIGHT AGO REVEALED (Received December 16, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 15. The Hungarian Minister for the Interior (M. Fischei) caused a sensation in Parliament when he revealed that the Nazis had attempted a rising on December 1 which the police suppressed, after killing two Nazis and wounding 44, says the Budapest correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. The revelation followed a Nazi deputy’s question accusing the police of abusing their powers. The official Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter publishes an interview with Dr Franz Basch, leader of Hungary’s German minority of 600,000, in which he lays down the concessions desired from Hungary as: (1) Recognition of the principle of popular unity and personality of the racial groups. (2) The provision of German speaking schools and training colleges. (3) The removal of impediments for the creation of German newspapers. (4) Permission to establish youth and charity organizations. (5) Permission to take up collections. (6) The use of the German language in religious instruction and church services. (7) The organization, if necessary, of the German minority as a political party. The Volkischer Beobachter adds that the Hungarian Prime Minister (Dr Bela Imredy) is likely to agree to the demands. MEMEL NAZIS MAY REJECT OATH QUESTION OF ALLEGIANCE TO LITHUANIA (Received December 15, 7.50 p.m.) WARSAW, December 15. Dr E. Neumann, leader of the Nazi Party in Memel, is reported to have declared that the Germans in the new Memel Diet will refuse to take the oath of allegiance to Lithuania.