NEXT WEEK-END

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 7

NEXT WEEK-END

NEW PERIOD OF DANGER FEARS OF CZECH MILITARY CIRCLES (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 10. The News-Chronicle’s Prague correspondent says that military circles in Prague expect a new period of danger next week-end. Two concentrations of German troops are proceeding to the Bavarian and Austrian frontiers, especially to Linz (northern Austria), where great masses of troops and artillery are stationed around the railway. Long-range guns are emplaced at Deutchealtenburg. directed on Prague. An official Czech broadcast objects to a German “campaign of insolence which is directed against the efforts of France and Britain for European peace.” The latest suggestion from the German Press is that the Sudetens may be forced to “measures of selfdefence against the Czech terror.” German Catholicism. The Daily Herald (London) suggests that Herr Adolf Hitler is pondering a new and spectacular coup, namely the separation of German

Cathfiicrr*. m n- an.* the creation of a German Catholic Church, not subordinate to the Pope, though orthodox in rites and doctrine. This is to some extent following Henry VIII.’s role in England at the time of the Reformation. The moving spirit is supposed to be Cardinal Archbishop Innitzer, of Austria. “We are tearing down this synagogue, not because it is a synagogue, but because its presence mars the appearance of the medieval town,’’ said Herr Julius Streicher, editor of the anti-Jewish Dersturmer, in a speech when Nuremburg workmen began to demolish the building, removing the Star of David from the dome amid the cheers of the crowd.