The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-11
CZECHO DEFENSE
 LOAN IS FOUGHT
Sudeten Germans Are Op= posed = Final Election
 Shows Preparedness

Prague, Czechoslovakia, June H. (U.P) - Sudeten German party leaders indicated today that they would boycott 8 national defense loan which the government intends to raise to meet extraordinary ex- penseS incident to the minority cri- sis.
 Sudeten German leaders in par liament had been invited to take part in the work of raising the loan. They countered with 8 statement attacking the loan on constitutional political, and economic grounds, cited the "poor financial condition" of industry in the Sudeten (minor- ity) area and said:
 We can not see our way clear to advise Sudeten German populations to participate in the loan."
 They advised Professor Carl Eng llsh. governor of the National Bank, that they must reject his invita- .io:l to participate. A committee named to handls the loan decided, at a meeting under Professor English, to call the loan "a jubilee dedication of the popula- tion for defense of the state" Emphasizing even more plainly than did the loan the governments $ determination to resist any foreign attacker, the army general staff warned that an invader would meet the most formidable resistance.
 Major Rudolf Bioz, ill a national wireless speech, explained in detail the fortification ,.sIem which hes been developed 10 mec; invasion
 "On crossing the border an enemy would be engaged by a ring of machine gun nests so planned as to break up mass attacks into smaller single engagements" he said. "Our tactical plan, combining such na- tural hindrances as mountains with Notifications, will prescribe for an enemy the terrain in which he can seek battle and the routes over which he can enter the country. Thus enemy casualties would be increased and the defenders would be able to fight on their own terms"
 AS regards the probability that the defense lines would be subjected to mass airplane bombardment, Ma jor Broz said that the machine gun network, as laid out by the army general staff. would offer only a negligible target to aircraft.
 The campaign in preparation for the final series of municipal elec- tions reached its climax. People of 8,170 communities are to vote to- morrow, including 1880 in which there is preponderance of minority Germans.
 In 4,000 communities the distribu- tion of national fractions is so well defined that there will be but a sim gle election list, which means that there is no opposition ticket and that for those communities the election will be mere fcrmality.
 Nevertheless, in towns and vil- lages in the German zone, the cam lpaign was as energetic as if the Su- detens were seeking against odds to persuade majority to support them: In Sudeten towns, even where the German element was so strong that other elements offered no op- position, Sudeten partisans met to cheer themselves hoarse and to de- mand full acceptance of their lead- CTS demands for autonomy.
 Reichenberg, one of the big Ger man centers whose people are to vote, was particularly enthusiastic Between 15000 and 10000 persons attended one meeting at which lead CTS urged them to be German"
 However, United Press Staff Correspondent who drove 100 miles through the deepest part of the Su- deten belt and on through the Czech area to Prague reported that there were few signs of the near