CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 14 October 1938, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

REFUGEES' FEAR OF NAZISM.

PLIGHT OF JEWS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

GERMANY'S DEMANDS IRRESISTIBLE.

LONDON, October 11. A deputation of 10,000 Austrian and German emigres, the majority of whom were Jews, waited on Brigadier-Geneial Sir Neill Malcolm, Commissioner for German Refugees, and pointed out that they were forbidden to earn a living, says the'Prague correspondent of Tne Daily Telegraph. Furthermore, it was politically impossible for the Czechs to resist the German demands for their deportation. Members of the Sudeten German Party continue to attack Czech frontier guards, two of whom were killed at Novares. Eight defence guards were killed by Storm Troopers during the evacuation of Mixulov. The Daily Telegraph. adds that the Germans are removing transportable Czech fortifications to the Western front. , The German Minister m Charge oi 'the ' Four-Year-Plan (Field Marshal Hermann Goering) announced the extension of the Four-Year Plan to Sudetenland. , A meeting of the Ambassadors Commission arranged for to-day was cancelled, and the commission will meet again on Wednesday, when it » hkely to com. to a decision about p ebtscites. The Czech v Foreign Minister (M. Chvalkovsky) is expected on WednesL with proposals, about German re. SJ JL Czechoslovakia ? the adaptation of Czech ■P**» od .gS in alignment with Germany, he prohibition of the amp** W throughout Czechoslovakia and M LpprLion of arlti-Nazi .propaganda by issued to prevent; to stop a stampede inland. Registration Lato provided for Sudeten German refugees. The German refugees will be , out the, country being between 250,000 and 500,000.

GERMAN EYES ON RUMANIA

RESOURCES OF WHEAT AND OIL.

COUNTER TO BRITISH TRADE EFFORTS.

LONDON, October 12. Rumania, with her wheat and oil tee Rumania a steauy ui will help to open , new oil taMs. The correspondent adds that Ger many may be expected to attempt to £3L? British trade efforts to contro oil fields which mean inanity from blockade ma -vital a<mpct of modem warfare. German claims will not stop at Turkey/but will embrace Iraq, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan, making conSet in this manner" with direct uiteiests of the British Empire. _ The conclusion of the agreement with Turkey is regarded as a sign that other countriel will fall easier victims to Germany's blandishments. ' The German Minister of Economics (Dr Walther Funk) left Istanbul for Sofia to negotiate an agreement with Bulgaria, furthering Germany s economic plans in the Balkans. It is revealed that Dr Funk has accepted invitations to visit Rumania and Greece He reaffirmed that the method of development of German economic relations with the Balkans will consist of bilateral agreements based on reciprocal baiter. • ... Dr Funk's success is sealed by a barter agreement by which Germany will take Turkish tobacco, timber, raisins and . cotton in exchange fo r machinery and manufactured goods.

LIMIT TO NAZIS AMBITION

AIMS IN FAR EAST

DENIED,

"WE ABE INTEHSETED ONLY IX AFBICA." I SYDNEY, October 12. A German journalist. Hen- Seliwurz von Berk; arrived by the Dutch aeroplane at Sydney to-day to study social and political conditions in Australia and to write articles for leading German • newspapers. In an interview he «i'id that Gctmmy had no colonial ambitions in the Ynr East. "We arc interested only in Africa," he added. "Wo arc not interested in Kimv Guinea. We do not intend to get into new rivalry with the British Fleet." Heir von Berk described the moves to win hack the German ' people from the Sa-ir, Austria and G/.echoslov ikia as I'fituiul—certainty not as a. political development. "HANDS OKI' AFIMGA" CAMPAIGN GAINS. TRUCE AMONG POLITICAL PARTIES. DURBAN. October V±. Tbe "Icinds < -T Africa" campaign is gaining - momentum. Tbe pliiical parl : es have come *o a truce. iii'rl iii"ii'l trs of tho Dominion, Soc-j:'l : sl "'id dot/vl parties al a- iii**9 meeting ,l«"(ij.">(-.;lf>t.-il i-tieir opposition to any c>>.-sir-n ni"»-cs. thousand civi|ia"s have sent a petition conveying a piniih l " protest. ' At Dai-e*-S;>lecm, copi'tal of Tanpapvika. p:iti»-«i-i >• Hiving Union Jacks in Jova'ty to thf' British irr;ind.°tft made an ("'dftrly d.-nmnstr-i'-ti"". .throughout Xb- " V '.Vt r;. ( .,ing.