The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-13
Czechs Send Europe
 Into Danger Crisis
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NOVnVlIlueQ speech. Aussig is on the northern border, 90 miles South-southeeNst O. Dresden.
 Latest dispatches said two wer, killed at Aussig and one at Eger with eight wounded at Eger, includ ing two children.
 Various incidents occurred arounS Aussig after c Hitler speech demon stration at which the mayor of Aus sig, Dr, Tauehe, and sudeten depu ties made speeches.
 lb Henleinites Arrested Fifteen Henleinites were arrested ct TeehlowitS when e crowd stormet an armored car. Sudeten German reported that the C2echs were usinl tanks and army units to patrol Eger (The London foreign office received a telegram saying military police fired on crowds ct Eger, causing casualties,)
 Sudeten quarters In Aussig sait free-for-all fights between Sudeteni and Czeehs occurred along the eoun. try roads as 46,000 people who hae attended demonstrations In AuSsil started home.
 At Schoenprlesen, c suburb oI Aussig, revolver shots killed Hel' muth Lang, c Sudeten demonstratol and Rudolph VNeha, an onlooker, 4 stray bullet hit the pajama.cla Vaeha as he watched the excitemen from the window of his home.
 Sing German Songs
 During the demonstration, th( crowd sang German songs, including the Nazi anthem, tho Horst Vessel and Deutschland Ueber Ailes," ane shouted Sudeten party slogans. They started to leave quietly but on tht way home clashed with groups Of Czeehs, Dispatches from Mics sait Czech authorities used four armoree cars and three military lorries te disperse 0 crowd which was singing and cheering Hitler.
 Cseehoslovakia, the polyglot re. public of the World war treaties, wal confronted with the gravest crisis oi it's 20 year history.
 The Sudoten complaint and the government martial law order meant that in oil probability the final crisis of the minority problem was at hand 1t was feared.
 Soon after the sudeten German announcement of disorders, mem- bers of c Sudeten German delega- ton, scheduled to resume minority negotiations with Premier Milar Hodza today, left for Eger to meet Konrad Henlein, party leader, or hig return from the German Nag congress ct Nuremberg,
 It was believed that they might break or postpone negotiations be- cause Of the new incidents.
 Danger Is Apparent
 The urgent danger inherent in tho new situation was oil too apparent Complaint of disorders was calcu. lated to give basis for c 5udeter party allegation that Czech police could not maintain order and shoulc be replaced by Sudeten police; ust of oppressive measures was calcu' lated to give basis for complaint t Germany of oppression.
 A little more than i2 hours aftel Hitler's speech, the Sudeten party headquarters here announced that three sudeten Germans had beer killed last night during torchlight processions celebrating Hitler! speech at Nuremberg.
 It was said that one was killed al Aussig and two at Eger, and that c number of Sudetens were wounded in other Sudeten areas. It was al. legged also that there was an incl. dent involving the use of an ar. mored police car against a crowd Of Sudetens at Mics who were shout ing Hell Hitlerl"
 Only few minutes before the Sudeten German party announce ment, at Prague 1t was announced at Berlin that Helmuth Lang Sud- eten. and Rudolf Vacha, an onlook. CT, had been killed at Schoenpriesen near Aussig, last night. It was al- legged that Czechs fired the shots which killed both men. Lang, 1t was asserted, was on his way home from the market square of Aussig where he had listened to radio broadcast of Hitler's speech. Vacha, it was said. was killed while he was lean- ing from window, looking down into the square.
 ct was assumed that this incident was the same as that which the Sudeten party announcement de- scribed as occurring at Aussig, and that in the Sudeten version only Lang was mentioned.)
 Incidents Are War Echoes
 It was incidents of the sort men, toned which were more and more regarded as the probable final turn ing point in the minority crisis. The view of observers here was that the Sudetens. after some such incident might demand that they be per- mitted to organize their own police force; or that the government might