APPROACH TO SUDETEN PROBLEM

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21155, 30 September 1938, Page 9

APPROACH TO SUDETEN PROBLEM

EFFORTS TO AVOID OUTBREAK OF WAR DRAMATIC SCENES IN PAMMENT British Official Wireless RUGBY, September 28. Mr Neville Chamberlain’s announcement to the House of Commons that, as the result of a new appeal for peace which he had addressed last night to Herr Hitler, the German Chancellor had invited him to a meeting, came at the close of a long statement. After a scene of extraordinary enthusiasm, the House adjourned until Monday, on Mr Chamberlain’s suggestion, to which the two Opposition leaders brought their support in short speeches, the spirit of which was recognised in renewed outbursts of enthusiasm. The announcement of to-morrow’s meeting, and the dramatic new hopes of peace it raises, came in the passages of the Prime Minister’s speech, in which a long recital of events in recent months was brought to a point where, as a last effort to preserve peace, he sent the Foreign Office adviser (Sir Horace Wilson) to Berlin on Monday with a personal message to Herr Hitler, for delivery before the Fuhrer’s speech at the Sports Palace.