PLANES AND GUNS
GERMAN ACQUISITION FROM CZECHS PAYMENT TO BE MADE IN COAL. FROM MINES CEDED TO REICH. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) GENEVA, January 24. It is learned that a German military commission has arrived at Prague, to negotiate for the purchase of several million pounds worth of aeroplanes, aero engines and heavy artillery. Payment is to be made in coal from the Czech pits ceded to the Reich. GERMAN DEMANDS REPUDIATION OF ALLIANCES. CZECHS QUITE WILLING TO CO-OPERATE. LONDON. January 24. The Prague correspondent of “The Times’’ reports that, after hearing an account given by the Foreign Minister, Dr Chvalkovsky, of his talks with Herr Hitler and- the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, the Cabinet instructed the Minister of Commerce and Finance to draw up a programme of economic co-operation with Germany.
Germany, it is understood, demanded that Czechoslovakia should repudiate her Russian and French alliances and join the anti-Comintern Pact, to which Dr Chvalkovsky replied that she was ready to do so, when Germany guaranteed the new frontier.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 5
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