ATTEMPTED REVOLT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 7

ATTEMPTED REVOLT

DISORDERS DELIBERATELY FOMENTED VANDALISM AND LOOTING CASUALTIES~ON BOTH SIDES LONDON, September 14. The: “Daily Telegraph’s” special correspondent in Prague, who has completed a wide tour of the inflamed areas, declares that there is no room for doubt that the disorders were not sporadic, but a concerted attempt at a Henleinist revolution. There has been shocking vandalism in the* fashionable shops at Carlsbad, and many have been looted. At Eger shops were wrecked and plundered. Destruction in the main square resembled an air bombardment. The rioters vanished immediately the police appeared. Four gendarmes and one Sudeten German were killed in a clash at Falkenhau. The total death-roll yesterday is 17, of whom five were Germans and 12 Czechs. Another Prague message states that Sudeten storm troopers took over the powers of the police at Marienbad. The party issued instructions for all businesses and factories to close. Thousands of people demonstrated in the streets, renedering it impossible for the .police to carry out their duties. Nazis wearing swastika armlets appeared and took over the work of the police. The police yielded in order to avoid bloodshed. Tourists and Jews, are leaving the city en masse.

HENLEIN IN CHARGE NOT GOING TO PRAGUE. MR WATKIN ATTEMPTING MEDIATION. . PRAGUE, September 14. Herr Kundt, one of the Sudeten leaders, has gone to Prague to hold himself in readiness to do whatever is possible on behalf of the Sudetens. Herr Kundt said: “The next few hours will decide whether it is to be peace or war.” The indications are that Herr Henlein will personally direct all future developments. There is no likelihood now of his going to Prague. Mr Ashton Watkin, economic adviser to Lord Runciman, has arrived at Asch, the Sudeten headquarters, to see Herr Henlein and make another attempt at mediation. Many Sudetens crossed the frontier into Germany overnight. A body of 500 rushed past the Customs post at Walsdorf. Security police used teargas bombs to drive out the Sudetens besieging the frontier Customhouse. Czech troops yesterday surrounded the Sudeten town of Schwadenbach, where a thousand Sudetens, many of whom were armed, had besieged the gendaim p ” : ° BREAK IN NEGOTIATIONS. (Reed This Day, 9.30 a.m.) PRAGUE, September 14. The Runciman Mission has issued a communique stating that Herr Henlein has communicated to the mission that Sudeten negotiations with the delegation have been dissolved because, owing to the course of events in the past forty-eight hours, conditions for continuing negotiations on the basis of ine original mandate no longer existed. The Sudeten leaders at Asch have issued a communique demanding the right of self-determination. FAILURE TO MEET. MORE ABOUT SUDETEN TERMS. (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) j PRAGUE. September 14. I Mr Ashton Watkin could not meet