Prague, Mar. 22.
Over 30,000 Germans in Czechoslovakia have joined Herr Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German party during the past week, The influx, includes state employees. the interior lay in private enterprise of a caravan nature, with the merchants arranging their own transport by road. Considerable business of this nature, he said, was already being done in Canton and Hankow by fleets of motor lorries.
The Burma Road The Sudeten German party held ever 100 meetings in various places during the past week, in which autonomy for the Sudeten Germans was demanded as the only acceptable solution.
The entire po! nnd of various large industrial works, such as the North Bohemian Electricity Works and the Wolfram Works at Ai have entered the Henlein Party, the management having lifted the previous ban.—Trans-Ocean.
Among possible routes,—the foreigner cited the new road to Burma, which was nearly completed. He also mentioned that pioneer work was being done in several outlets in the direction of the Chinese south coast between Indo-China and Hongkong, the exact details of which, however, could not be published for fear of Japanese action In the event of the Canton-Hankow Railway being cut, he went on, China's western provinces would not be entirely cut off. Trade would continue, he added, but it would be Mr. Hall-Patch's Trip Tokyo Speculates on Mission Tokyo, Mar. 22.
Mr. E. L. Hall-Patch, Financial Adviser to the British Embassy in China, who sailed from Shanghai on March.21 for Tokyo in the Empress óf Asia, is generally believed here be engaged in a mission to assist the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, in settling the question of the Shanghai Customs with the Japanese Government.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi" reported to-day that Mr. Hall-Patch was coming to Tokyo to participate in proposed negotiations with the Japanese Government "for saving the currency of the Nationalist Government from split up into a number of small channels.
In conclusion, the merchant declared that the outlook for foreign traders was not promising, but "they were not entirely finished."—Reuter.
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