VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1938, Page 6

VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN

LEAVING PRAGUE FOR LONDON TO CONSULT PRIME MINISTER (Recd This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. Viscount Runciman is going to London to consult xhe Prime Minister. STAYING AT HOME KEY MEN IN BRITISH METAL INDUSTRIES VISIT TO UNITED STATES CANCELLED (Recd This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 15. Two hundred and fifty metallurgists have cancelled plans to attend the Institute of Metals meeting at New York on October 3, as the result of Government advice that it is undesirable for key men in the iron and steel industry to leave England. GERMAN CHIEF OF STAFF • REPORTED RESIGNATION DENIED (Recd This Day; 12.15 p.m.) BERLIN, September 15. The reported resignation of General Beck (German Chief of Staff), is officially denied. SUDETEN ALLEGATIONS (Recd This Day, ILS a.m.) BERLIN, September 15. The Sudetens in their campaign allege that tne Czechs are forcing Ger-man-born soldiers to fire on their own countrymen. A large number of such reservists defied the calling up notice, which was designed to denude the Sudeten areas of able-bodied men. The Sudetens state that this is “unparalleled brutality.” The Sudetens also alleged that Czech soldiers and police, at Eger yesterday, without warning attacked Sudetens in a swimming pool. Machine-guns, tanks and armoured cars, they state, opened fire, before the pool was stormed and plundered. 1

MARTIAL LAW

EXTENDED ON ACCOUNT OF INCIDENTS (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) PRAGUE, September 15. The Czechs have proclaimed martial law in five more districts, owing to further incidents, and half the Sudeten areas are now under martial law. Special train services have been prepared to evacuate Czechs and nonNazi Germans in case of emergency.

NAZI PROPAGANDA CONTINUED OUTCRY IN BERLIN PRESS (Recd This Day, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, September 15. The evening papers print a proclamation announcing Mr Chamberlain’s arrival. Commenting on it, the Boerson Zeitung” says; “It is hoped the proposals of the English statesman are suitable and will end the dreadful situation the oloodthirsty and raging Czech soldiers have brought to the Sudetens. There is no time to lose. Other newspapers bitterly comment on events in Czechoslovakia. . The "Lokal Anzeiger” says a Czech revolution has broken out which threatens Europe.