REPORTED CLASHES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 6

REPORTED CLASHES

VARIOUS GERMAN REPORTS. REVOLT AT BRATISLAVA ALLEGED. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, September 22. German sources report a serious clash at Weipert, the population of which place marched to Baechenstein, on the frontier, where a Czech officer, it is alleged, threw a hand grenade at a crowd. Czechs and Sudetens were killed, but details are not available. The report adds that buildings in Weipert were set on fire. The official news agency says raiding Czechs were thrown back at Neus- . siedl, Witterbach and Liebnau. At the last-named place there was a miniature battle between the Czech military and Sudetens, some of whom were killed and twenty wounded. A German wireless station alleges the revolt of the Bratislava garrison. TOWNS EVACUATED. HANDED OVER TO SUDETENS. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) • PRAGUE, September 22. The Czechs have evacuated a large area between Klingenthal and- Graxlitz. Swastika flags now decorate the houses. Czech officials at the Klingenthal customhouse burned portraits of the late President Masaryk and Dr Benes and handed over their keys to a Sudeten volunteer corps. Selb was deserted overnight, Sudetens swarming across the frontier and taking over all duties. Reichsmarks have already supplanted Czech crowns. All Czech emblems have gone and Jews have fled. A Henlienist ordnance' corps is guarding Customs stations. Demonstrations ■ were resumed in Prague early in the morning. The crowds were orderly, but less goodtempered than last night, women screaming continuously. Many factories have been closed, and workers are pouring into the city. Traffic has stopped in the centre of the city, and processions are converging on the President’s Palace and Legation quarters. There was much oratory, but the speakers do not seem clear regarding the real position. Some people imagine that Hitler is already on his way to Prague. i The Australian Associated Press says that although Mr Chamberlain has decided not to discuss the Polish and Hungarian claims against the Czechs with Herr Hitler, official circles in London have requested the Polish ambassador and Hungarian minister to advise their Governments not to press their demands until after the Godesberg talks, at which the question of establishing a committee to redraw the map of Czechoslovakia will be discussed, as a settlement of the Sudeten problem is considered necessary in the interests of world peace. SUDETENLAND GIVEN UP. ACCORDING TO GERMAN REPORT. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, September 22. The Official, News Agency states that the Czech Army is evacuating all parts of Sudetenland. At Eger people roamed the streets throughout the night, expecting the arrival of a German army and wildly cheered the first detachment of the Free Corps. The remaining Czech police are now wearing swastika arm-bands. PACIFIST FAITH MANIFESTOES PRESENTED IN LONDON. WORLD PEACE CONFERENCE ADVOCATED. (Received This Day, 10.52 a.m.) RUGBY. September 22. A deputation from the Peace Pledge Union, headed by Mr G. Lansbury, called at No. 10 Downing Street and left copies of a manifesto reaffirming the pacifist faith that nothing can justifying resort to war and appealing for a concentration of effort during any respite which may be given upon securing a world peace conference, with the object of revising existing treaty and economic relationships on a basis of justice, towards which not one but all governments should be called upon to make their contribution.