MORE CONCESSIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1938, Page 6

MORE CONCESSIONS

CZECHS & SUDETENS MEETING HENLEIN DEMANDS. BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION. (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 26. The British United Press Prague correspondent reports that the Czechs have decided on greater concessions to the Sudeten Germans, submitting as a basis for negotiation proposals which it is authoritatively stated will meet four of Herr Henlein’s six demands and partially satisfy the remainder. The proposals are aimed also at meeting the demands of other minorities.

EMPIRE & WAR * SOUTH AFRICA’S POSITION. GENERAL SMUTS’S OPINION, (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, August 25. General Smuts, speaking in the Union Assembly,' said his personal opinion was that South Africa would assist Britain if she were attacked. The Union would be cutting its own throat if it allowed Britain to go under. The Government policy was that the constitution permitted a decision as to whether the Union should go to war or not. It was not a question of the Union being at war automatically if Britain went to war. General Hertzog, in the Assembly, said the Government refused to be bound beforehand on the question of participation in Britain’s wars. He did not feel it incumbent on himself to say whether Tie agreed with General Smut’s personal views. They agreed that Parliament should decide.