NOTE TO ROOSEVELT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 7

NOTE TO ROOSEVELT

STATEMENT OF THE CZECH POSITION APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT TO ARBITRATE. SHOULD NEGOTIATIONS FAIL. WASHINGTON, September 29. A Czech Note to President Roosevelt, a United Press correspondent states, expresses readiness to cede to Germany territory more than 50 per cent of the inhabitants of which are Germans (on conditions and with reservations detailed in an official statement reported yesterday) and asks President Roosevelt to arbitrate should negotiations fail. Messages approving of President Roosevelt’s appeal to Herr Hitler poured in all day from the Governments of many countries, including Australia.

FRONTIER AFFRAYS FIGHTING BETWEEN CZECHS ' AND HENLEINISTS. PARTICIPATION BY REICHSWEHR ALLEGED. LONDON, September 30. The Prague correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that marauding bands of Henleinists, surreptitiously supported by German troops, have resumed their frontier attacks. It is officially reported that fighting broke out in the village of Reizehain. One of the assailants was killed and two wounded. Members of the Reichswehr, attempting to reinforce the Henleinists, were repulsed. An unconfirmed report stated that severe fighting has occurred at Rumburg with heavy casualties.

TENSION NOT ENDED PRECAUTIONS MAINTAINED IN BRITAIN. CHILDREN STAGE BATTLE IN BRADFORD. LONDON, September 30. Official quarters see no signs of hope of an immediate end of the tension, which is shown by the fact that the Government continues rapid precaution, says the “Daily Telegraph.” Thousands of territorials already mobilised, are living under war time conditions. Some are quartered within a bus ride of their homes, but are not allowed to go home at night. The Home Office has warned parents against allowing children to use gasmasks as toys, owing to the danger of damage rendering them useless. Bradford police were called out this afternoon to two large gang's of children, all wearing gas masks, who were staging a mimic battle from parallel air raid trenches in the heart of the city. Police fought their way to the trenches through a hail of stones and clods. LIMITED LEAVE. GRANTED TO MEMBERS OF DEFENCE UNITS. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. The War Office has granted limited leave to anti-aircraft and coast defence units; also to Territorials, but all equipment remains in position.

HEARTENING NEWS MR LYONS EXPRESSES GRATITUDE HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY ANTICIPATED SYDNEY, September 30. The Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, voicing the feelings of the Common-, wealth, said: “The news from Munich is the most heartening for years.” He expressed the hope that the four-Power agreement would be the forerunner of a more general settlement, ensuring happiness and prosperity for all peoples. “To Mr Chamberlain particularly, and in a lesser degree President Roosevelt and Signor Mussolini, we owe our heartfelt thanks,” he said.