TROOPS ON FRONTIER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 8

TROOPS ON FRONTIER

TWELVE VALUABLE HOURS GAINED BY PEACEMAKERS The German Official Attitude (Recd This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. “The Times” says German and Czech troops are still gathered in unannounced numbers on the frontier. ■ All the capitals report an atmosphere critical and confused, but at least the first of three Sundays of polling in the Sudeten areas has passed off without a major clash. Both London and Paris feel that twelve valuable hours have been gained in the task of evolving a peaceful settlement. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says the impression gained from those in close touch with German official quarters is unfavourable. The foreign reaction to wild outbursts against Czechoslovakia has caused the brake'to be applied and has also delayed the far-reaching military preparations, which, in view of Czech opposition would be necessary if Germany were to follow up her protests by invasion. It is understood that Herr Hitler discussed the implications of a German-Czech conflict with Herr von Ribbentrop, General von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-chief, and General Keitel, Army Commander, with whom he left Munich for an unknown destination, it is believed Berchtesgaden. Marshal Goering is believed to be one of the chief protagonists of a drastic policy towards Czechoslovakia, but diplomatic counsels, at least at present, have prevailed over his suggestions, as indicated in the more moderate tone of his newspaper, the “Essen Zeitung,” in an article urging the Czechs to settle the problem which Marshal Goering is reported to have inspired.