WAR TOMORROW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1938, Page 6

WAR TOMORROW

EXPECTED IN BERLIN HITLER’S ANTICIPATED ACTION. , ATTACK ON CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND MOBILISATION. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says well-informed circles fear that, failing the Czech acceptance of the German ultimatum by 2 p.m. on September 28 (today) Hitler’s troops will march against Czechoslovakia on the morning of September 29, accompanied by a general mobilisation. The exodus of foreigners is proceeding at full speed. Those leaving include many Britons, and wives and children of Embassy staffs. “The Times” Berlin correspondent says the Official News Agency states that the Sudeten areas of Asch, Schluckenau and Rumberg have been cleared of Czech and Communist bands and cut off from the rest of Czechoslovakia and are wholly controlled by the German Sudeten Party. The post offices are working only with Germany. COMPLETE SURPRISE HITLER’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF ZERO HOUR STUPEFACTION IN PARIS (Received This Day, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 28. The news from Germany that 2 p.m. on September 28 (today) is the zero hour, came as a complete surprise to the Press and public throughout Britain and France. It was thought the crisis would come on Saturday, but now, according to “The Times” correspondent in Berlin, the time limit for acceptance is /fixed at 2 p.m. on September 28, in order that the Czech Army, in the event of acceptance, could quit the Sudeten ai/eas by October 1 The world has overlooked the difference between acceptance or nonacceptance and in the event of acceptance the accomplishment of an exodus. Thus the world faces the culmination of the crisis a few hours hence instead of on .'Saturday. A message from Paris states: “The report that Hitler has advanced the time limit has been received here with something like stupefaction, even by well-inform-ed quarters.” CZECHS WAITING NATION NOT STANDING ALONE. RENEWAL OF FAITH IN POWERS. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) PRAGUE. September 27. Cabinet met after Mr Chamberlain’s broadcast and considered a report of the speech. A strict censorship continues, covering telegraphs, telephones and the Press. All Czechoslovakia waits for war. The general impression is now that Hitler has rejected the London plan and the nation does not feel itself standing alone, not an inch of territory will be surrendered cheaply. Faith in England, France and Russia is renewed.