STIR IN GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 7

STIR IN GERMANY

ALLEGATIONS OF CZECH TERRORISM ASSURANCES TO THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR. NO MOVEMENT OF REICH TROOPS. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. BERLIN, May 21. The Government is sharply protesting against the Cheb shootings. Newspapers have been instructed to intensify the campaign against Czechoslovakia. Sir Neville Henderson called on the German Foreign Minister, Herr von I Ribbentrop. Conversations lasted an hour. It is revealed that Herr von Rib-

bentrop confirmed assurances that there are no troop movements. The front pages of this morning’s newspapers carry flaring banner lines describing “the unbearable provocation of defenceless Sudetens, and police attacks with firearms and sabres,” and generally seek to convey a picture of Czech terrorism. Newspapers print full sensational reports of alleged incidents in Czechoslovakia. Marshal Goering’s “National Zeitung” declares that the German people cannot regard these incidents as accidental outbreaks of Czech Chauvinism, but a planned attack on the rights and very life of Sudeten Germans, for which the Czech Government must be held responsible. Evening papers describe Hofmann and Boehm as martyrs and use the incident as an opportunity for a fresh frenzied outburst.