PLEBISCITES PUT OFF

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1938, Page 6

PLEBISCITES PUT OFF

ON ACCOUNT OF CZECH MAJORITY DIFFICULTIES RAISED BY GERMANS EXCESSIVE DEMANDS MADE INCLUDING DOMINANT CONTROL OF RAILWAYS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 10. In view of the substantial Czech majority in the proposed plebiscite areas, prospects of plebiscites are more remote. It is believed that new frontier lines and exchange of populations will be arranged by negotiation. The International Commission will again meet on October 11. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent pointing out that a deadlock has almost been reached by the Finance and Economic sub-Committee because of the dictatorial attitude of the German representatives on the subcommittee, says there was no agreement on what should be included under the heading of installations, which would be left by the Czechs. The British definition of rolling stock and cattle as removable was not accepted by the Germans, who rejected every proposal likely to leave the Czechs independence in any sphere. For example, the Germans demand control of the railways from Silesia south to Ulmuetz and from Austria northward to Brunn, placing the Czechs’ internal eastward communication at the mercy of Germany.

LINE OVERSTEPPED PROTESTS DISREGARDED BY GERMANS (Received This Day, at noon) PRAGUE, October 6. It' is alleged that the Germans are overstepping the demarcation line at several points, notably at Biaunau, where two additional communes were occupied. Protests were not heeded, the German commander declaring that the inhabitants, who are chiefly Germanspeaking, had invited the occupation. BELLS AND FLAGS CELEBRATIONS THROUGHOUT SUDETENLAND (Received This Day, at noon) ' BERLIN, October 10. Church bells were rung throughout Sudetenland to celebrate the completion of the occupation. Symbolic force was given to this by the proclamation of the swastika-as the national flag, and the application of the Reich to Sudetenland. >

HUNGARIAN DEMANDS ' COMPROMISE SOUGHT AT KOMORN. (Received This Day, at noon) BUDAPEST, October 10. The Czech delegation at Komorn declared its willingness to cede predominantly Hungarian-populated areas, but did not accept the ethnological-map on which Hungarian claims are based. A sub-committee is seeking a compromise. EXTREME CLAIMS NATIONAL DISINTEGRATION ENTAILED (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 10. It is disclosed that the terms of the Hungarian Note to the Komorn Conference meant the disintegration of the remainder of Czechoslovakia. It demanded the immediate cession ol territory including Bratislava, Kosice, Nitra Uzhorod, Muckacveo and Rognigovia, also plebiscites in the remainder of Slovakia, and- in Sub-Carpathian Russia. DR. BENES STILL IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA BUT GOING INTO EXILE (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 10. Dr Edward Benes is still in Czechoslovakia, though it is understood he has promised to leave shortly.