Evening star., 1939-03-23

ITALY is REARMING to save peace
King Vittorio Emanuele tells ne1
Legislature in speech from throne
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PARIS FEELING GROWS afte
speech by King Vittorio Eman
uele that Settlement Is now DOS
sible with Italy. Page A.
BULLETIN.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March
% R.-The Slovak government
reported tonight it had sent air.
planes and Hlinka guards (Slo-
yak storm troops, to Eastern
Slovakia to repel an Hungarian
invasion of the plain lying be-
tween Kosice (Kassa) and Uz-
horod Ungvar).
~ the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, March 23.-The Slo
yak government today protested
to Hungary against the entry O.
Hungarian troops into Slovakia ant
drew reply that the vague statu.
OF the boundary was responsible.
The Slovak protest said that Hun.
garian troops had crossed the
frontier from Carpatho- Ukraine, oc.
cupied by Hungary last week in the
breakup of Czecho-S -Siovakia, ant
had engaged in military action or
Slovak soil.
Count Stephen Csaky, Hungarian
foreign minister, in reply told
Slovakia-which is under Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler's protection as IAN
autonomous sovereign state"-that
her eastern frontier had never been
fixed and it was possible that "a
local discussion" had arisen between
Hungarian and Slovak troops.
Csaky said there can be no ques-
ton of military operations"
~ "a treaty was concluded. in
Berlin between Germany and
Slovakia providing that Slo-
vakia retain its status of an
"autonomous sovereign state"
Germany establishes no formal
protectorate over the region, but
agrees to protect it in case of
any attack from any side what
soever.
(Slovakia will have it's own
foreign minister and have diplo-
matte representatives abroad,
according to the treaty.
German political sources in
sisted that whatever action Hun.
garian forces may have taken
today on Slovak soil occurred
without Germany's knowledge.
Whatever protection Slovakia
may need, they insisted, will
come from Germany, but they
added that the need of such pro-
lection was exceedingly unlikely.
(The German Slovak treaty
provides also that Slovakia will
have its own currency, posts and
telegraphs)
Budapest Denies Reports.
The Budapest foreign Office de.
MED reports that Germany was "en-
couraging or silently approving such
military action" in Eastern Slo-
vakia.
Such reports had been current IL
Budapest diplomatic circles, which
expressed belief that Hitler might
be encouraging Hungarian expan-
sion so as to build up a powerful
ally for himself in Central Europe
Qn Berlin German political
circles said emphatically that
Germany had not countenanced
any Hungarian military action
and that while Germany agreed
to give Slovakia whatever aid
was necessary to preserve her
integrity the need of such help
was exceedingly unlikely.
Berlin announced conclusion of
q treaty recognizing Slovakia's
independent autonomous" stat
us, different from the formal pro-
tectorate Hitler imposed on Bo-
hemia-M -Moravia.)
Count Csaky announced he had
ordered IAN immediate investiga-
ton of the reported incursions into
Slovakia.
The foreign Office said reports
of German acquiescence in Hun
garian invasion of Slovakia were
untrue and had "a transparent
aim."
Reliable reports from the border
said Hungarian units had crossed
into Slovakia at several points.
Advance at at Several Points.
Hungarian troops moved into Slo-
vakia at several points along the
Slovakia- -Carpatho- Ukraine frontier
said reliable reports from that region.
Hungarian troops had been II
Carpatho- Ukraine since their occu-
patton last week of that easternmost
section of Czecho- -Slovakia.
Troops were reported to have ad-
vanced six miles beyond the Slovak
frontier near Ungvar, Eastern Hun
garaan city won in the first parti-
tlon OF Czecho-Slovakia last au-
tumn.
They were said to have taken po-
sitions In mountains northwest Of
tne ung River, which flows from
Carpatho- Ukraine, annexed by Hun
gary last week.
reports from border towns north
OF Budapest said other Hungarian
forces were preparing to march
nortn through Mira into Western
Slovakia.
Inough some quarters thought
tne military movements were to
rectify the frontier between Slo-
vakla and Hungary, foreign diplo-
matic circles believed Hungary was
about to take over administration
OF s'oVakia with German approval.