CZECH SETTLEMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 7

CZECH SETTLEMENT

GERMANY TAKING WHAT SHE LIKES COMMISSION DISCUSSIONS FUTILE BRITAIN SAID TO BE NO LONGER INTERESTED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 12. The “Manchester Guardian’s” diplomatic correspondent says that the discussions of the International Sudetenland Commission have become so futile that the Czechs prefer to negotiate direct with Berlin in the hope of reaching a practical compromise. Germany, however, is taking everything claimed in the Godesberg ultimatum of a strategic and economic character. It is now apparent that Germany is taking towns like Trubau, in which there are 5000 Czechs and 200 Germans, because of its valuable chemical industry, and refusing impoverished districts in which .Germans are in the majority. The diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Herald” says that Britain has washed her hands of the Czechs and is no longer even interested in what terms Germany imposes. STILL UNCERTAIN THE POSITION REGARDING PLEBISCITES MEMBERS OF BRITISH LEGION WAITING (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 12. Though it is still uncertain whether there will be plebiscites in Czechoslovakia, two train-loads of members of the British Legion, including Australians and New Zealanders, have embarked on the liners Naldera and Dunera, which have anchored in the Thames Estuary, and will remain there until a decision is reached.