LURID PROPAGANDA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1938, Page 6

LURID PROPAGANDA

GERMAN PRESS YELLING TO ORDER “RAPID SOLUTION MADE IMPERATIVE." I WILD CHARGES AGAINST CZECHS. (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says no official communique has been issued regarding rioting, but official quarters declare that incidents render imperative the rapid solution urged by Herr Hitler. The evening papers continue the anti-Czech campaign with frenzied violence and accuse the Czechs of shooting defenceless shoppets without reason. No mention is made of Czech casualties in the long and lurid reports of disorders.

CROWDS IN LONDON COMMUNIST DEPUTATION SEEKS PREMIER. PROMISED ATTENTION LATER. (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. While Ministers were conferring the police cleared the crowds from Downing Street and formed a cordon at the entrance to Whitehall as hundreds of Communists marched down from Trafalgar Square, escorting a deputation desiring to ask the Premier to recall Parliament next week. The police allowed the deputation to enter Downing Street and be admitted to Number 10, where a secretary explained that the Premier was too much occupied to deal with the petition immediately and would reply at the earliest opportunity. Later demonstrators attempted to march to the German Embassy, but ’were prevented by the police.

DISORDER & REVOLT TROUBLES SAID TO BE FAR FROM SPONTANEOUS DEATH SENTENCES IMPOSED IN EGER (Recd This Day, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. The “Times’s" Prague correspondent says there are disorders in the Sudeten areas, varying from peaceful demonstrations to what Czechoslovakian officials call open revolt. The authorities are making special enquiries into the origin of the troubles, which are believed to be far from spontaneous.

A Czech officer fired on Major Sutton Pratt, an observer attached to the British Legation, who arrived at Eger when armoured cars were firing in the streets. Major Sutton Pratt went to the police station, and explained that the firing must cease immediately. His orders were obeyed. The “News Chronicle's” Prague correspondent says it is stated that ten persons have already been sentenced to death by court martial for revolutionary activity at Eger, the chief centre of disorder.