BORDER CLASH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1939, Page 6

BORDER CLASH

HUNGARIAN LOSSES STRONGLY-WORDED NOTE. SLOVAKS ALLEGE ATTACK BY MAGYARS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) BUDAPEST, January 8. The Hungarian casualties at Munkacevo on January C are officially given as seven dead and nine wounded. A London message states that the Hungarian Government has protested to Prague in a strongly worded Note which holds the Czechs responsible for what it describes as an act. of aggression and declines to accept responsibility for any consequences which may develop.

The Budapest correspondent of "The Times" says that the Hungarian view is that the attack was deliberately planned, but the Prague correspondent of ‘The Times” says that the Slovak Government asserts that the firing began from the Hungarian, side, after which -irregular units of the Hungarian army invaded the republic’s territory, attacking so violently that regular Czechoslovak units, including artillery and tanks, had to be called up to repel the invaders. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the German Press reports the affair impartially, giving both the Czechoslovakian and Hungarian versions at length, thus showing a remarkable change since last summer when Czech accounts of frontier incidents were either ignored or ridiculed. THROUGH TRAFFIC. SUSPENDED BY HUNGARY. By Telegraph—Pre--,;-. Associalion—Copyright. (Received Tins Day, 9.45 a.m.) PRAGUE, January 8. As a result of tension following upon the frontier clash, the Hungarian authorities have suspended railway traffic between Czechoslovakia and Rumania, which now passes through Hungarian territory.