CZECH PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 5

CZECH PLANS

LOAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION SOUGHT IN LONDON

STRONG GERMAN OPPOSITION. PLUNDERING OF JEWS URGED AS ALTERNATIVE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. Three Czechoslovakian financial experts are going to London to resume the negotiations started before Christmas, says the Prague correspondent ol the “Daily Telegraph." It is understood they will seek a further reconstruction credit of £20,000,000. German influences strongly oppose the move. They urge, alternatively, the adoption of Germany’s anti-Semitic programme, with the expropriation of the capital of Czechoslovakia’s 350,000 Jews. Germany has forced on Prague University 300 students, mostly from the Sudeten areas and all organised Nazis. Germany demands that they be allowed to wear uniforms and badges, which the Czech Government is resisting. GERMAN GAINS RESOURCES OF SUDETENLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BERLIN, January 6. A remarkable increase in Germany’s potential war resources by the annexation of Sudetenland is revealed in the half-yearly report of the Reich’s Kredit Gesellschaft. Minerals important for military purposes include antimony, lead, iron, manganese, copper, nickel, tungsten, tin and zinc, and also 90 per cent of the world production of lignite. She will become the largest radium' producer. On the other hand the territorial gains have imposed an additional strain on her financial and economic structure, Austria being responsible for half of the Reich’s adverse balance of £37,000.000 and also increasing the Reich’s food deficit, despite a record harvest.