Evening star., 1938-09-27
CzEcHS DENOUNCE
.H|TlER'S DEMAND
Government Radio Asserts
Speech Shows Desire
to Crush Nation.
~ the Associated Press.


PRAGUE, Sept. 27.-The C1echoslo-
YAK government radio today broadcast
Indignantly that Reichsfuehrer Hitler's
demands showed . brutal desire to
crush Cxeshoslovakia as . free state" !"
(The broadcast was made at about
the same time as the Czechoslovak
Legation In London disclosed ofacially
that Prague refused to submit to Ger
many's demands for cession Of Sude-
tenland ~ stated in Hitler's memo
randum Of September 23.)
THE form given by Hitler to his
memorandum" the government sta.
ton announced, "is su1ncient to show
that 1t u not enough to make an
agreement and maintain peace.
"One feels In Hltler's memorandum
. brutal desire to crush Czechoslo-
vakia ~ . free state.
"The memorandum demands annex
alton to Germany Of territory counting
3.73e.0 900 Inhabitants, Of whom $685. :
600 speak German and $4,000 Czech.
Only 144,eee Germans.
ION the other hand, in the territory
where Hitler demands q plebiscite there
are 1,l16,000 Czechs and only IA, 900
inhabitants who speak the German
language.
1T results from this that Germany
would incorporate $4,000 Czechs into
Germany and there would remain only
100000 Germans in Czechoslovakia.
The Hitler memorandum Is flatly
directed against the economic existence
OF Csechoslovakia. As . result, Czech
oslovakia would be deprived of . great
part OF her forests and her highways
ana railways broken in two.
On the other hand, Czechoslovakia
would lose depots on the Elbe River
and water highways to Bradshaw (bor.
der town at the junction of the Ger
man, Hungarian and Czechosloyak
frontiers on the Danube).
"C1echoslovakia would be 80 weak.
ened IN military way that the sreat-
est part OF her territory, notably b.
nemis and Moravia. would be at the
mercy Of Germany"
Popular Resentment Mounts.
Popular resentment Of Hitler's threat
70 act BY next Saturday unless he re-
celVed the Sudetenland mounted while
C1ecnoslovakia marked time waiting
the outcome Of renewed British French
enorts to solve the issue peacefully
Circles close to the government ex.
pressed hope that the friendly ulti-
matum OF London and Paris to Ber.
I'M would draw some OF the fire out of
Killers denunciation of Czechosloyakia
the state. its President and its
people. ~
The Czechoslovak press described
Hltiers attack on President Benes As
without precedent in history.
Omcially there was absolute silence
But qualified sources emphasized that
the republic never had closed the door
70 further negotiations and still h.
NeVed a settlement could be made in
peace. e ~
Take Sudeten Headquarters.
neml-omclal sources said Chancellor
Hitlers newest demands denarted ~
lar from tho original English.French
proposals ito cede Sudentenland
peacefully. after proper nesotiations)
that Csechoslovakia's existence would
oe menaced If they were accepted.
Czechoslovaks. meanwhile, assumed
control OF the Sudeten German party's
headquarters in Prague and turned it
into q refugee shelter
The Rumanian general, J. Anastasiu,
followed the example of Gen. Eugene
Faucher, former chief of the French
military mission in Prague, and placed
himself At the disposition of the
Czechoslovak military.