SLOVAKIA’S STATUS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 5

SLOVAKIA’S STATUS

INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEED BY GERMANY NAZI TROOPS TO WITHDRAW. WHEN CZECH SOLDIERS LEAVE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) BRATISLAVA, March 20. It is stated in official quarters that Herr Hitler and Count Tiso signed in Vienna a treaty whereby Germany guarantees Slovakia’s frontiers for twenty-five years. Slovakia will be independent, with her own army, money and diplomats. German troops will be withdrawn when the Czech soldiers evacuate. REFUGEE CAMP PROPOSAL BEING CONSIDERED IN PRAGUE. ASSISTANCE TO CZECHOSLOVAK FUGITIVES.. PRAGUE, March 20. The British and American Ministers in Prague have under discussion the formation of a refugee camp at Gdynia, on the Baltic, for Czechoslovak fugitives. pending their departure for England and America. Three hundred who were furnished with British visas and labour permits are hiding in the woods fearing arrest, while Britons who provided them with the permits refuse to disclose their addresses to the Germans. SWISS INDEPENDENCE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO PEOPLE. TO REMAIN UNITED & RESOLUTE. LONDON, March 20. The Geneva correspondent of the “Dailyq Telegraph” says that the President, Dr Etter, appealed to the people to remain united and resolute. He added that military measures had not yet been taken, but that the Swiss would maintain their independence to I the full extent of their, forces.