REPLY TO POLISH NOTE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 11

REPLY TO POLISH NOTE

Czechs Ready to Negotiate CLAIM FOR POSSESSION OF TESGHEN (tTJTOTD FKES3 ASSOCXWIOS— COTWBWtJ (Received September 26, 8 pjn.) WARSAW, September 25. A Foreign Office communique says the Polish Legation in Prague was informed that Czechoslovakia will reply to-day to the Polish Note of September 21, expressing readiness to negotiate with Poland regarding Poland's claim to Teschen and the Silesian territory. Forty-five British citizens crossed the Teschen bridge from • Czechoslovakia to Poland carrying only hand baggage, going from Warsaw to Cracow. ""..--' A secret wireless transmitter at Teschen broadcast a statement that gendarmes attacked Poles who -were boycotting the Czech mobilisation and trying to escape across the frontier. Many were killed and wounded. There was all night fighting at five points: Jablonkowo, Trzynic, Teschen, Frysztat,. and Bogumin. Poles captured a number of weapons from the police, land deserters from tbe Czech. Army supplied rifles and ammunition, and even hand grenades and machineguns.

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ALARMIST CONCLUSIONS DEPRECATED

3IERELY A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE LONDON, September 25. The Admiralty deprecates alarmist conclusions drawn as the result of the Home Fleet's departure from Invergordon yesterday. It was stated to be merely a precautionary measure. It is understood that leave has been curtailed at all stations at Home and abroad, and squadrons are prepared to move "at a moment's notice.

The Admiralty is taking precautionary measures which involve the recall of a certain number of men from leave, and bringing up a few ships to full complement. Cinema programmes were interrupted at Weymouth and Portsmouth for announcements immediately recalling ratings. The First Anti-Submarine Flotilla of the Home Fleet left Invergorden for an unknown destination.

From Hamilton. Bermuda, it '■* officially announced that movement of British naval vessels henceforth will not be published. It is assumed, as no vessels are at present in port, that the West Indies Squadron was hurriedly ordered elsewhere, probably to reinforce the Mediterranean Fleet.

OFFERS TO FIGHT FOR CZECHS (Received September 26, 8 pjn.) LONDON, September 25. The Czech Legation in London received many offers of enlistment an the Czech forces.