Vienna, Sept. 22.
Police forces of the German Reich were ready near the Czechoslovak frontier today, prepared at a moment's notice to march into the Sudeten German area when the signal is given at Berlin.
Busloads of police are rolling into Vienna hourly from southern Austri primed to "preserve order" in Czechoslovakia on the same plan employed when German guards crossed into Austria on March 12.
Vienna citizens prepared for their second "victory celebration" within seven months signifying union of the Sudeten Germans with the Greater German majority. Virtually everyone is convinced that annexation of the area is a matter of only a few days' time.
The majority of informed observers believe the annexation will be comparatively bloodless although others feared that extremist pro-Soviet el ments in the Czech army might gain the upper hand and precipitate a civil war.—United Press.
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