Evening star., 1938-10-01
Occupation
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! sort town of Franzensbad. Three
Czech soldiers, one gendarme and two
Sudeten Germans were killed in an
exchange of shots.
Stores were open in Eyer but the
city was cut off from rail, telegraph
and telephone service. Money of the
Prague government still was in cir
culation
German railroad officials arrived and
took possession of the station, which,
though on CzechoSlovak SOIL Is part
! OF the German railway system. They
closed the station to the public.
Main Body of Troops Cross.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE GER
/ MAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Pas
sau, Germany, Oct ,P).-The main
body of the German Army crossed the
Czechoslovak frontier at 2 pm. g
am. E. S. T) today. to start its formal
occupation of Sudetenland
Reconnoitering units had preceded
the main body of the occupation force
across the border during the early
morning.
The force, estimated at about 10000
men, was commanded by Col. Gen
Ritter Won Leeb
II planned to occupy about one
quarter of the first zone of the ceded
territory today. going as far as Warmer
and Moldau Rivers.
Troops Are Separated.
As the German troops advanced.
they were separated from Czechoslovak
forces by neutral zone 5000 meters
| 1920 YARDS wide, running roughly
parallel to the new frontier.
Military law ruled the first Czecho-
slovak zone occupied by the German
Army. Foreigners not attached to
headquarters Or not accompanied by
officers were subject to Immediate ar
rest
Strict military observation was also
in force along the German side of the
frontier.
The first zone taken over from the
Czechoslovaks stretched from the bor-
der town of Stubenbach through the
towns of Rehberg, Wallern and Reas-
berg. curving doWnWards toward the
frontier lust outside OF Krumau and
outside Kaplitz to the frontier town
Of Unterhaid.
Krumau Not Included
krumau. the chief town of the re-
gion, and Kaplitz were not included in
the German occupation. 1t was as
sumed at headquarters the Czechs
had withdrawn to Krumau, using the
city as a new frontier base.
Twenty foreign newspaper men were
accredited to the army of occupation.
They were warned not to stray from a
group for the purpose of independent
observation. but we're assured of an
opportunity to see "everything."
Photographers we're denied permis-
sion to enter the occupied territory.
Newspaper men travelling in private |
and army automobiles we're accom-
panied by staff officers.
TriumphaI Entry Denied.
BERLIN, Oct. tHJ .-Triumphal en-
try into the Sudetenland was denied |
those to whom it may have meant the |
most-the thousands of Sudeten Ger
man natives who fled from Czechoslo- |
vakia into Germany last month and
were formed into a ''voluntary'' free
corps by the Sudeten German party
leader. Konrad Henlein.
Triumphal entry was denied those
to whom 1t may have meant the most
the thousands of Sudeten German
natives who fled from Czechoslovakia
into Germany last month and were
formed into voluntary" free corps
by the Sudeten German party leader.
konrad Henlein.
The Free Corps men had threatened
TO take ten-and-h hundred fold revenge
for every drop of Sudeten German
blood spilled in German Czech dis
orders Free Corps headquarters in
Bayreuth, Germany. forbade members
to cross the border singly or in groups
without special permission.
The instructions apparently were is
sued to hold the Free Corps back to
let their passions cool and avoid risk /
ing bloodshed.
Clocks in city hall and church |
towers had sounded only the first
stroke of midnight when the first small |
token" contingent of 900 crossed into
Sudetenland as the vanguard of
main force scheduled to follow them |
in several hours.
Other troops were bivouacked for
marches into zone two (along the |
Northern Czechoslovak frontier) on
Sunday and Monday; zone three Nhe
largest of the districts in Western
Czechoslovakia) on October 3, 4 and S,
and zone four (along the Northeastern
Czechoslovak border) on October s
and Z.
100000 Hail Hitler.
A crowd estimated at 100000 gave
Hitler a triumphant, thankful well
come on his return from Munich.
The Fuehrer's special bomb-proof
traian arrived exactly on schedule at
1O:4O am. 4:40 am, E. S. I'd while
brass bands blared and tens of thou
sands in the station square thundered
Hell! Fuehrer!"
Leading men of the Nazi Party, gov
ernment and armed forces, headed by
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm |
Goering, awaited the chancellor on
the platform. During the night almost
every inch of the station walls had
been covered with flags, foliage and
flowers.
Airplanes roared overhead as he
rode to the chancellory through streets
guarded by shoulder-to-shoulder lines
of storm troopers. and more than
100000 school children yelled them
selves hoarse in greeting.
The reception was like the one given