HITLER’S ATTITUDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1938, Page 6

HITLER’S ATTITUDE

SAID TO HAVE REJECTED COMPROMISE NO ABATEMENT OF DEMANDS THREAT OF DRASTIC MEASURES (Recd This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. The British United Press Berchtesgaden correspondent states that wellinformed quarters say the lines of Mr Chamberlain’s report to Cabinet will, be that Herr Hitler is uncompromising in his insistence on the Sudeten German's right of self-determination, and in his reiterated refusal to tolerate continued “Czech oppression.” It is in sisted that Hitler left Britain and France to find a means of compelling the Czechs to agree to a solution acceptable to Germany and also left no doubt that he might be compelled to resort to drastic measures.

CZECHS ARRESTED

IN GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITIES. PROTESTS CONTEMPTUOUSLY DISMISSED. (Recd This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Prague correspondent says the first arrests are reported to have been made at Chemnitz and later extended to all German industrial cities, the most prominent Czech citizens in each town being seized. The Wilhclmstrasse contemptuously dismissed the Czech Minister’s protest against a breach of international law. JEERS & ASSAULTS. ILL-TREATMENT OF CZECHS IN AUSTRIA. (Recd This Day, 11.35 a.m.) VIENNA, September 16. Czechs venturing into the streets were jeered and sometimes assaulted.