CLASHES BETWEEN GERMANS & CZECHS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 7

CLASHES BETWEEN GERMANS & CZECHS

Trouble Over the Hitler Salute MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES WOUNDED i By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, May 19. The Prague correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that three Henlein Germans and three Czechs were wounded in disorders which started in the village of Crebenice, in northern Bohemia, when 50 members of the German Athletic Association marched through the streets shouting “Heil Hitler." A clash occurred with a number of Czechs, and disorders spread. The gendarmerie intervened. MINORITIES STATUTE. REJECTED BY HENLEIN PARTY. PRAGUE, May 19. Herr Ernst Kundt, the Sudeten . German deputy, met the Prime Minister, Dr M. Hodza, yesterday and is reported to have told him that the Sudeten German party would reject the Prime Minister’s new minorities statute. - Herr Kundt admitted that he had not yet received an' official copy of. the statute, but said that the leader of the party, Herr Henlein, had been given a good idea of it while he was in London. Herr Kundt added that the statute did not meet 5 per cent of the party’s demands. The Sudeten Germans demanded precisely the same rights as the Czechs, including those of local self-government, local' police and local finances.