A SECOND SPAIN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 5

A SECOND SPAIN

IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. GERMANY’S AIMS. War Clouds Hanging Heavy Over Frontiers. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.45 a.m. London, Feb. 13. Lord Rothermere, in an article in the Daily Mail, bitterly attacks Czechoslovakia as a “spurious State of the Central European sham, and a perpetual danger to peace but which the Peace Conference was bluffed into creating. That bluff is now called."

Lord Rothermere adds that the immense development of

Germany now threatens the Czechs with retribution. War clouds hang heavy over its frontiers.

The Paris correspondent of the News-Chronicle says that responsible circles in Pans sure alarmed at information from

various sources suggesting that Germany intends making Czechoslovakia a second Spain

and is plotting to engineer a revolt. She may be smuggling guns to the German-Hungarian minority.

Following the Spanish precedent, Germany would not intervene officially but would support the revolt with war malerials and volunteers while

pretending non-intervention. Germany thus hopes to reshape Czechoslovakia without open invasion, which would mean a European war. She seeks to buy off Poland by offering her the Teschen district.

Dr. Benes had a long conference with the Chief of the French Military Mission, and it is stated in Paris that Germany has seriously miscalculated if she expects France to accept another experience of non-in-tervention.