RELIEF WORKS PROMISED.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 5

RELIEF WORKS PROMISED.

General Weissenberger, commanding the division advancing through Tusset, said that the German’s first task would be to relieve Sudeten unemployment by roadbuilding in the mountains and other measures to raise the standard of living, a thing for which inhabitants long waited. The British United Press correspondent accompanying General Hartmann’s column described by telephone the advance by five columns of field-grey troops into Sudetenland along a twenty-mile front. Bands were playmg and the troops were singing, laughing and joking. They were widely acclaimed by the population, hundreds of whom lined the streets and gave the Nazi salute. The Sudetens tore down the Czech mobilisation order and removed Czech signs. / The Czechs had received orders either to destroy mines or to mark the mined zones, so that they would be easily recognised, with danger signals. Reuters’ correspondent at Linz, describing the advance of German and Austrian troops over the frontier hillroad from Linz, reported that the advance occurred a little earlier there as Herr Hitler s parents are buried in the cemetery at Vogelwald in that vicinity.