PLEBISCITE AREAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 7

PLEBISCITE AREAS

NEW DEMAND ADVANCED BY GERMANS VOTE WANTED ON BASIS OF 1918 POPULATION COUNTERING SETTLEMENT AT LATER DATE. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 5. The British United Press Berlin 'correspondent says it is semi-officially stated that Germany is asking that the 1918 population figures be taken as the basis of the determination of the predominantly German areas outside/the lour specified zones in Czechoslovakia. It is maintained that the Munich agreement was to “correct injustices to the Sudetens since 1918,” and that therefore no solution overlooking areas which the Czechs have forcibly settled with their own people since 1918 would permit the establishment of normal and friendly relations between Berlin and Prague. The settlement must eliminate the possibility of prejudicing German-Czech relations, which cannot be achieved if the Czech influence in this territory is overlooked. Reuter's Berlin correspondent says it was later reported that the Ambassadors' Commission agreed that the predominantly German area in Czechoslovakia, which is being occupied by Germans on October 10, was that where the German majority was 51 per cent. HITCH REPORTED. ON ACCOUNT OF STAND BY GERMANS. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, October 5. A hitch has occurred in connection with the International Commission regarding the—- 7 handed over on October 10. It is unders ,-d that agreement thus far has been difficult, as the Germans have taken a most emphatic stand.