HUNGARY’S CLAIMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 9

HUNGARY’S CLAIMS

Same Treatment As Sudetens NOTE SENT TO PRAGUE Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. BUDAPEST, Sept. 22. Hungary has forwarded a Note to Prague demanding the same treatment of the Hungarian minorities as of the Sudetens. It is officially announced “The friendly Governments of Italy, Germany, and Poland have taken steps to ensure diplomatic assistance for the Hungarian claims in Czechoslovakia. Hungary has also informed England and France that she expects them to see that concessions similar to those made to the Sudetens are made to Hungary.” Sixty-two Slovak Magyar (Hungarian) troops, the entire garrison of a frontier fort, entered Hungary and surrendered their machine-guns and other equipment after disarming their officers and locking them in the abandoned fort.

Deputy Bartseknyk, speaking at a torchlight demonstration last night, declared that the hour had struck for righting Hungary's wrongs. Hungarian patience had ended, he said, and thirty million Hungarians de'manded the return of their million separated brethren. The assembly coined the slogan: “Down with Prague and Hodza. We want everything back.” It jeered at Britain and France and paid tribute to Germany, Italy, Poland, and other friendly nations. HUNGARIAN NAZIS THREATEN RISING Received Sept. 23, 9.30 p.m. BUDAPEST, Sept. 23. Local Nazis threaten a rising if the Hungarian Government does not secure the return of the Hungarianspeaking areas in Czechoslovakia. GERMANS IN DENMARK DEMONSTRATIONS ORGANISED

Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. COPENHAGEN. Sept. 22. The German minorities at Schleswig are holding demonstrations organised by the Nazis in favour of Germany.

CONFERENCE MOOTED ALL POWERS OF WORLD I British Ofiicial Wireless. ] Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 22. A deputation from the Peace Pledge Union, headed by Mr. George Lansbury, called at Downing Street to-day and left copies of a manifesto reaffirming the pacifist faith that nothing can justify resort to war, and appealing for a concentration of effort, during any respite which may be given, upon securing a world peace conference with the object of revising the existing treaty and economic relations on' the basis of justice towards which not one, but all, the Governments should be called to make their contribution. CROWD CLOGS WHITEHALL Received Sept. 23, 5.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 23. A crowd, gradually increasing to 10,000, clogged Whitehall following the International Peace Campaign’s appeal, necessitating special police precautions. The crowd was at first good-humoured and never violent. The din was audible in Downing Street, which the police cordoned off. The mob hooted and jeered, but eventually the demonstration died down as a loudspeaker heralded the approach of the Peace Campaign’s deputation to the Foreign Office. Amid wild cheers it passed through the cordon and handed into the Foreign Office a resolution which demanded the instant recall of Parliament, publication of the full text of the proposals, and an effective reaffirmation of unity of purpose between Britain, France and Russia to safeguard international democracy and peace. The Labour Party will hold 2000 meetings during the week-end in a lightning camaipgn “against the shameful s. orifice of Czechoslovakia to Herr Hitler’s threat of war." The League of Nations Union passed a resolution repudiating the Government policy seeking Czechoslovakia’s surrender by force. It expressed the belief that such a policy was disastrous to British interests, fatal to British honour and eventually provocative of war whatever the immediate results might be. VISIT TO PARIS BRITISH LABOUR MEMBERS f British Offic’al Wireless. ] Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY Sept. 22. A party of British Labour leaders flew to Paris to-day for consultations on the international situation with French Socialist and Trades Union leaders. CANADA’S ATTITUDE VIEWS OF WAR VETERANS Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. WINNIPEG, Sept. 22. “Canada could not remain neutral with Britain at war,” the LieutenantGovernor (Mr. W. J. Tupper) told a convention of army and navy veterans to-day. “Canada and no real Canadian believes such nonsense. The Constitutional authority is all against it.” Lieutenant-Colonel Webb asserted their only regret was that at a time when Australia, New Zealand and South Africa had assured Mr. Chamberlain of their support, Canada had not spoken.