UNDER PROTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 7

UNDER PROTEST

SETTLEMENT ACCEPTED BY CZECHS NO ALTERNATIVE SEEN BY GOVERNMENT DECISIONS TAKEN AGAINST THEM (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) PRAGUE, September 30. It is officially announced , that the Czechs have accepted the Munich proposals. An official statement says the Government, after considering that the decisions were taken without their being consulted, and against them, have no alternative but to accept.

HARSH TERMS SMALL POWERS UNEASY CZECHS TREATED LIKE BEATEN ENEMY (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) GENEVA, September 30. League of Nations delegates told the British United Press correspondent that the terms imposed on Czechoslovakia were as harsh as those dictated to a defeated enemy. The smaller powers are uneasy at the way which the Czechs’ fate has been decided without consultation. The Russians point out they predicted, at the beginning of the crisis, that Britain and France would satisfy Herr Hitler at the expense of Czechoslovakia.

OCCUPATION BEGINS. GERMAN TROOPS TO MOVE AT MIDNIGHT. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, September 30. The Havas News Agency, quoting an authoritative German source, says the first German troops will cross the Czech border at midnight. COMMISSION MEETING. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) BERLIN, September 30. The first meeting of the International Commission is expected to be held this afternoon. JOY IN ITALY TALK OF MUSSOLINI’S TRIUMPH LONDON, September 30. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says that widespread relief at the news of the Munich conference has been replaced by a feeling of satisfaction and enthusiastic pride at what is described as Signor Mussolini’s triumph. The conviction prevails that, thanks to him, war was averted. The. newspapers hail the Duce as the saviour ot Europe. ENTHUSIASM IN ROME. MUSSOLINI GIVEN GREAT WELCOME. (Received This Day, 11.10 p.m.) ROME, September 30. Signor Mussolini received a great welcome and was lauded as the saviour of European peace by 150,000 cheering people, by whom he was held up for five minutes. Beginning a brief speech from the balcony of the Palazza Venezia, Signor Mussolini said: “Comrades, you have lived in memorable hours. At Munich we have worked for peace according to justice.”