Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 01, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba 3.30 ., sept 39 12.30 am oct 1 3.30 ., oct. For Lull vol. 76-36 pages rises s.27 Sun sets Winnipeg. Saturday october 1, 193t Moon rises 14.13 Moon sets 33.it. Polish ire czech evacuation of Peschen area demanded in note Warsaw oct. 1. Sent the czechoslovak government a new note Friday night calling for prompt fulfilment of her just territorial demands. It was understood the note delivered in Prague shortly before Midnight set noon today 5 ., . As a dead line for compliance. In Prague the polish note was reported to have demanded Quick evacuation of czechoslovak troops from Peschen Silesia 772 Square mile area in which most of Czechoslovakia s polish minority a previous polish note had made such evacuation a condition for negotiations on polish demands for the same treatment of its minority As accorded by Czechoslovakia to its sudeten German minority the Semi official polish Telegraph Hungary to state terms Budapest oct. 1. Will present to the Prague. Govern ment in a few Days a new. Two Point demand regarding the Hun Garian minority of about now living in a foreign office spokesman said i Day night. Hungary will demand he said 1. Immediate unconditional Transfer to Hungary of All Czecho slovak territory in which a purely hungarian population lives and 2. A plebiscite for other South Ern czechoslovak regions adjoining this area. The Magyar sections of Czecho Slovakia Are along the hungarian Frontier in the South. The program me is similar to that by which Ger Many will obtain the sudeten Ger Man regions. The hungarian government was said to be still undecided whether the memorandum should be handed to the czechoslovak government by the usual diplomatic channels or by Way of one of the great Powers represented at the Munich conference. It was explained that Hungary was in a difficult position regard ing application of armed Force on Czechoslovakia because the Little entente pact among Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Rumania still is in and that consequently Rumania and Yugoslavia might March into Hungary As soon As one hungarian Soldier set foot on czechoslovak soil. More of the same Geneva oct. 1 up havas French. Munich agreement j should be made the foundation Stone for wider similar consultations to Settle Europe s remaining sources of potential trouble prime minister Eamon de Valera of Eire urged Friday night. The big Success made at Munich should be followed up immediate said or. De Valera who is president of the league of nations Assembly. Agency issued1 a communique de Claring the polish government was obliged to draw the consequences and place responsibility for attack ing on the czechoslovak the czechoslovak reply to Poland s previous note demanding evacuation of Peschen reached War saw at 1 Jan. Friday. Charges Prague manoeuvre polish political quarters declared the government was amazed to find the reply dealt Only in generalities. They said this was a manoeuvre by the Prague government to evade fulfilling their Promise. Broadcasts by polish radio stations emphasized that Warsaw was not bound by the four Power Cord for ceding Czechoslovakia s sudetenland to Germany and was free therefore to achieve her independently. Since Poland sent no representatives to the Munich conference she is entirely unaffected by the agreement reached one of the broadcasts said. ,._., a later broadcast said a Starp communique had been addressed to Prague by Warsaw As a result of an alleged Border violation yesterday. It said this provocation would entail serious consequences. A dub. German official news Agency reports received in Berlin said fiery anti czechoslovak speeches were made at Warsaw Friday night mass demonstrations in the City s Public squares. News Agency said the demonstrators made Clear determined to take Peschen Silesia by Force if it were not handed Over voluntarily by Czechoslovakia. Reports from Peschen Silesia dub were that the polish minority there was in. Open uprising 1 the weather thursday 6.30 To Friday g.30 At 6.30 34 maximum my Nimuan 33 barometer 30.30 North wind at 8 Miles cer hour humidity wet sky fair. Friday To Friday i.30 p. temperature at 6.30 . 65 maximum w. Minimum. 34 barometer. East Wuth East wind at 6 Miles per hour husky. Clear. Mima Mima 38 44 Helina 36 72 22 40 Brandon 28 64 44 64 Winnipeg. 42 Kenora 56 p. Arthur 64 Moosonee Troson Aavik Simpson Smith f. Rudert. Vancouver. Kamloops 58 84 f. Georic. 50 58 44 66 Edmonton. 48 62 Banff 39 58 Canary 46 70 52 70 Jed. Hat 54 so s. Current., 48 76 Battleford. 42 74 Albert 34 68 Saskatoon. 36 Cochrane Huntsville. P. Sound London Toronto Kingston Ottawa Montreal Quebec St. John Halifax 33 40 60 42 60 42 50 36 48 36 60 40 38 60 42 61 38 60 34 54 38 53 54 Moose 40 76 Manl Obj Fri 36 40 54 Clott Fown. 46 54 Chicano 56 m St. Paul 50 63 forecasts Resh to Strona southerly to w. Ads partly Cloudy and a Little probably Light scattered showers. To Strong Westerly Cloudy with stationary or tie temperature probably Light battered showers. Or with stationary a utile lower temperature. I fresh South winds mostly fair and somewhat probably followed by scattered see French italian settlement Paris oct. 1. A conclusion of the Munich Accord has aroused Hopes that France Patch up her strained relations with Italy. France has had no ambassador in Rome since late in 1946, when count de Chambrun resigned because of her refusal to recognize. Ital yes con quest of Ethiopia. Reports circulated in the chamber of deputies that Francois Pietri a corsican and former Cabinet minis Ter would be sent to Rome As. Amr Bassadore accredited to the italian King As emperor of Ethiopia As Italy demands. Dissension within the Cabinet it sell disappeared in the general rejoicing Over the Munich Accord. An undercurrent of tension remained however Over the sacrifices imposed on France s czechoslovak ally to preserve a general european peace. Political circles pointed out the Munich Accord extended the orig Inal French British peace plan which itself had caused an outburst of French protests evian though Germany backed Down from some of her later demands for the sudetenland. Russia frowns sceptical of Accord Moscow oct 1. Lost her this statement broadcast by the comintern radio station Friday Russia s ally summarized the i with which soviet circles we four Power Accord 1 ached in Munich. F quarters the news of i settlement plainly was i d not come As a Surprise Hari v since Moscow newspapers f1 predicting that prime Chamberlain would stretch a bargain with Hitler u was humanly possible. Moscow probably the calmest capital in Europe during the Black est Days of the czechoslovak crisis. Was outwardly Calm Friday amid world wide excitement Over the Munich agreement. The front Page of the red Star newspaper meanwhile was dominated by a of a Young machine gunner who was credited with having More than 100 japanese m the july August conflict Over Chang Kuofeng Hill on the siberian Macho Kuoan Frontier. If to t and threatens concentration of polish troops German troops enter Here Rumania demands for annexation of territory peopled by hungarians Munich sequels although the czechoslovak Cabinet has accepted the. Munich agreement awarding sudetenland territory to Germany its troubles Are not yet at an end. The polish government insists upon a settlement of its problem irrespective of. Any decisions arrived at in Munich and set the deadline for a reply to its demands at 5 ajn., . Riding the Crest britons Hail Chamberlain As civilization s Saviour opposition to stack Premier London oct., 1., Cap when parliament reassembles monday or. Chamberlain will face an opposition attack charging him with giving Way to Germany s will has prevailed Over the wills British democracies to destroy the Freedom of Czechoslovakia sir Archibald Sinclair Liberal Leader declared Friday right election rumoured even before the Public knew the itemized Bill in pounds Sterling which Britain had paid for pre of her Navy and widespread preparations for air was talk in political quarters of the government going before the country soon in a Gen eral election Issue Chamberlain kept us out of labor and Liberal opposition largely held its fire until it could learn definitely How much had been granted to placate Hitler. To meet the opposition or. Chamber lain had the hew Anglo German agreement against War and a Chance to halt Europe s great Ace. Moreover some persons thought Chamberlain s first face to face talk with Mussolini might Lead to an Early settlement of the Spanish War intervention problem and bring into operation the Dor Mant Anglo italian Accord. The feeling in some leftist and Liberal circles was that peace to Day had Only postponed War Morrow. Some quarters called Munich another big Victory for hit be r and his Drang Nach Osten March to the but whatever the opposition might think or might say or Chamberlain was a conquering hero of peace to tens of thousands who greeted him Friday. 1 by Grant Dexter. London oct. 1. Sharply contrasting views re Garding the Munich settlement were evident Here late Friday but regardless of what the future brings or where the truth ultimately is discovered to rest nothing can mar the first mighty flood of sheer est Joy which Here by the Munich flash.1 that agreement had been reached. From every news billboard peace screamed the newsboys. It seemed an armistice Day had dawned Friday morning miraculously before and not after War. Hearts everywhere leaped up. Had abyss of War. Lon Don faces Wera Radiant it was 1914 with a Happy ending. Prime minister Chamberlain both to friends and foe took on the character of the Saviour of his country Europe civilization and everything. Perhaps people thought of him in the terms of Thompson s hound of heaven. It was he who had sped up visted Hopes and shot Down the titanic blooms of the charmed fears yet always follow ing after peace. And Here at the end was the most glorious rain Bow Ever Mankind saw. But As the Day wore on and the a tails were added to the earlier , a horrid fear crept in that or. Chamberlain had. Not obtained but rather a respite from War. At the Price the czechoslovakian. Joy or humiliation a pathetic statement from Prague coupled with silence from Whitehall As to whether or. Chamberlain had Given a Bona fide British the new fron tiers of Czechoslovakia caused deep apprehension and it is pos sible that a Day that dawned As a Day of rejoicing mar be remembered As a Day of National Humilia Tion. It is declared however by those who should know that the French russian guarantee remains in Force until it. Is replaced by an International guarantee and that in the meantime the British government has underwritten the French guarantee. In these quarters the Munich settlement is regarded As the first stage european t appeasement they foresee a Long and possibly anxious period of negotiation be tween the big four with the ultimate goal the banishment of War and achievement of disarmament but they have no illusions about the Long Ness of the Road or the toughness of the going. Apart from the tremendous importance of the Munich agreement because it averted immediate War it is just an in their View. Judged by this test does it mean a lessening of rearmament the verdict is no. Rearmament must be seeded up so As to strengthen the British hand in further negotiations. The documents so far published reveal the British government is committed to enter into an International guarantee after the Settle ment is carried out but Hitler has stipulated pro guarantee conditions which will destory the and Mussolini agrees with him., there fore the British Promise appears valueless to the Czechoslovakia is because no International guarantee is feasible. It follows inevitably that without a guarantee the Mun Ich settlement is a tragic betrayal. Upon Anglo French insistence Czechoslovakia would have been compelled to surrender its Only dependable Frontier and would be stripped of her Meane of self de Fence abandoned by her friends and left to wait the death stroke. On this View All that or. Lain has succeeded i wresting from Hitler was a change in procedure. Hitler now takes Possession of the smaller area piecemeal peace fully but there. Is nothing to pre vent the Complete subjugation of the czechs within a year or less. Against this View it is insisted by prominent conservatives that so perfidious betrayal of a weak nation is unthinkable. Hitler arrives Berlin oct. 1. Bup Adolf Hitler arrived for a triumphant reception at his capital at 10.42 Today 3.42 , Vanguard crosses Border i. Shortly after Midnight u Bucharest. Oct 1. End of the Little entente As a resulted the four Power Munich conference was predicted today in some diplomatic i. They feared Czechoslovakia los ing a still undetermined amount of territory to Germany might be come so dependent on the Reich that she would be in no position to carry the Little economic and political programme with Yugoslavia Rumania. Seara the mouthpiece of the rumanian press department suggested Rumania Yugoslavia and Poland after the Munich agree ment could constitute a new Force. Unbelievably Habsa Birmingham England oct. 1 up havas French Britain s need to organize its Man Power in some form of National service for its own Security is the vital question Learned from the re cent War scare l m. S Amery conservative , and head of. The league declared Friday night in a speech before his constituents. The terms of peace have been unbelievably he said. Dur ing the May Only be a Brief must come closer together sufficiently to make it possible for parliament and the nation to accept some form of National service which will permit our manpower and National re sources to be organized for nation. Al Eden s sympathy London oct. F. Eden who resigned As foreign Secretary in february in protest chamber lain s policy of appeasing dictators expressed sympathy Friday for the prime ministers unparalleled or Deal in the european crisis. Or. Eden avoided however delivering any Apo Lical opinion on the merits of the Munich pact British troops Chosenlondon oct. 1. Was Learned reliably Friday night that six battalions of British troops would be sent to Czechoslovakia soon to assist m police duties carrying out the partition decreed by the four Power four battalions will be selected from five regiments of Foo guards which Supply sentries and guards of Honor at Buckingham Palace and other i Roya establishments including Windsor Castle these five regiments Are the Grenadier guards Coldstream guards scots guards Irish guards and Welsh was risk rates drop London oct 1. Of the czechoslovak crisis caused a Sharp drop in risk insurance rates friday1 a temporary schedule revision by Lloyds makes the rate for local Mediterranean voyages one fourth of one per cent As compared with five per cent previously. Voyages through the Mediterranean were reduced from five Pes cent to five eighths of one per cent. Insurance on America was quoted at one eighth one per cent and fort the t homeward voyage from one fourth of one per cent half of one per cent1- and one per cent respectively. Berlin oct. 1. A the first contingent of German troops crossed the czechoslovak Frontier near Aigen upper Austria Early today starting Adolf. Hitler s occupation of territory granted him by the four Power Munich a corals the Greer Clad infantrymen marched Over the Border shortly after 1 6 ., ., Friday Little More than an hour after the Midnight deadline Hitler had set for his occupation. It was explained this movement was regarded As merely a record loitering the terrain and preparing for the main of occupation to March in later Toddjr taking Over the first of four sudeten districts granted Hitler by the pact. I r by Webb Miller with the German on the czechoslovak Frontier oct. 1. Bup German troops poised on the czechoslovak Frontier awaited eagerly today for the order to Advance into ceded sudetenland at the Zero hour-f-2 .ccs.-t. Not until a jew hours at grand Headquarters known the. Zero hour troop moves the night under liver of dark Ness and at a ready to enter Germany gets the lion s share t. Czech Industrial life to suffer severe blow Berlin oct. 1. Are to determine the final extent of Success crowning the ambitions of Germany Poland and Hungary for czechoslovak territory. Until the voting in disputed areas is it is difficult to say what each stands to gain. But Germany of course gets the lion s share. Here is an estimate of some of her Gams from 75" to 100 per cent of Czecho Slovakia s Rich textile Industry. About 90 per cent of the re pub lie s porcelain oils Industry. Glass 86 per cent Lignite paper and Cement 80 per cent Ore smelt electric technical goods chemicals 60 and ing and 70 Coal Mills 55 Germany s territorial acquisitions at Czechoslovakia s cover the., Frontier regions of the South West and North through rugged forested line approximately 500 Miles Long. I famous bad Marienbad Franz Ejbad and by Many North americans and european the Ger m z Roan Reich. I the same Fate is in store for the lamed Joachimsthal Radium mine the most important in the world before Radium was discovered in the belgian Congo and later in the Canadian Joachim Nisthal produces from 1.4 to 2.4 Grams of Radium annually. Lignite mines of Northern to used by the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia will become German with their annual output of tons by the Boundary revision Czecho Slovakia stands to lose about a Quarter of her forests of the 000 acres of Forest in the sudeten regions go to Germany. Neither Poland nor Hungary has yet revealed the precise extent of then territorial claims on Czecho but the Region inhabited by poles covers about 772 Square Miles Mithra polish popu lation of some its main natural wealth consists t of High aside hard coat is believed to want about Square Miles of slovak territory in Southern Varia with a population of and also More land later after-plebiscites., Hungary principally covets so and also Salt which she now imports. Most of sugar now comes from Czechoslovakia As Well As Barley for Beer brewing. An authoritative czechoslovak statement issued in summed up the situation thus territory. Hitler leaves us would deprive us of the necessary conditions of economic life through the loss of important industries and raw materials. To a Large extent Only Agri cultural lands would be left to czechoslovakia1, which would be come dependent upon Ger Many Nari economies feared Cut oif factories for Semi finished under the same ship. T textile Mills will lose their fuel Supply at Schatzler. Thus Nevi fac tories will have jul have to be imported and the Price of cloth necessarily will Rise. Reichenberg a thriving Industrial City is Centre of try. It will also of Aeri oui consequence will be blows to czechoslovak porcelain and Glass for which is famous. J the heavy chemical Industry located at Falkenau and aussie in i Well informed czechoslovak in London feared Germany Trade by barter system Liv ing standards were waiting to engulf their country. Vehe vitally they said the new Czechoslovakia would be compelled to live with a a regimented state Economy As j held Tohal the year plan has moulded i Germany. The these sources expect Tell Witt he Cut through textile Arear which will mean indirect try that Prague s inane in the Street win have to pay More for hit clothes. The Border a Fol Western Bohemia will be new heavy chemical Indusi have to be created since supplies such As sulphuric acids found for the dust Iasi Tain. Throughout 4he night from head quarters at Liz Regensburg Pas Sau and other cities in the zone of operations general staff officers had directed the it was a cold and dismal morn ing Rainy and foggy. Along the roads in the Advance zone stood grinning joking germs n soldiers with Flowers stuck in their steel helmets and their belts. Across the Frontier they could see dimly the Nati Swastika flails which jubilant sudeten germans had. Raised As soon As the czechs got out by virtue of the Antish French German italian agreement signed at Munich at 12 35 Yesterday for further of situation see Page 5, 6, 12 and 13. German troops at signal were ready to take Over the first of four zones of the area of Czecho Slovakia. Zone which we faced this morning 1 West of the Mou Dau River whith est merids. Northward into Czechoslovakia. It faces the of Germany and Austria s it was for the War office to Flash word of the Zero hour. But the was ready to move at Dawn. Hitler was the in i the Frontier it was the s Day. Pressed uniforms Iron crosses and other decorations and newly cleaned and polished accoutrements telephones in , jangled As from ithe and Rieti orders issued was Pride in the aspect of the i so muck in of Weir March of today but in knowledge that their Mili tary machine was clicking a Jain As of bad that they were part of prob Border Battle London . But a daily mkt re ported frail Toi near the German that at 3 he had returned Forest Battle m which Side free men German Naii is body fumed break fire. With. Crneha. Ita the at. The Village at Obj Lohmar tween Asch and czechs he said had been it for the tart week sudeten free corps men Levaca it. V with Rifle and machine Jura. Fee Tail Uomini the to i 5s the most Modernly fighting Force in the world. Not in the cities a and in the villages along the droids i German men women stood ram the night with jamming trucks i had come to. Me believe Pendents by columns of motor foreign of lira and Ujj from the jumping off place., military activity extended far Back of this zone., on my Way from Munich by train i had passed two situation i am Nott disclose at both of them mud coloured fight info British papers mingle Praise with criticism London oct. 1. Up Cable London s morning papers through the Shock of peace instead of War today. Begani to examine the Munich agreements and this is what they the times declared there were Days when the terms of that Anglo German anti War de "could3 be dismissed As a be for occasion could arise be practically tested. But the present it is fair to think is not such a tire civilization has been so near the any peaceful Issue from the dispute of the last would have been wer when tug the paper con a a but close examination of uni Cut terms they constitute riot Only a settlement but hopeful settlement the Day Independent declared the Anglo German step in the direction of detachment from Europe which affords us the Opportunity to de extreme limits the Dimity grave criticism to tidally Herald sum Ming up. We must say that this plan on a . Nevertheless Hitler has had to ban i a when civilization stood face to face with the foul spectre of War should never be the news chronicle the face of War had come to deathly near by the Middle of week that the people could already. The breath of its nostrils. There is none whatever his jut feels intense Relief at its re treat vital the paper called attention to the fact the four Power agreement did not include solution of polish and hungarian claims and added from Point of View of the czechs and of our own Security it was a vital omission that Russia it not a party to the new the daily have foresaw trouble for the National commission in determine ing the areas of Moravia which it describes As like pieces in a Jig saw j it declared although the Ich agreement appears not unfavourable from the czech Point of View As compared with the ,1 Enrille plan it certainly Ellmin a i. A Don of Bis m l it shelf fist time Jie has hid to that ther Elare forces m the powerful Jan jibe isow any. Dirt Pean appeasement it can achieved omy at a the 01 hid ;