London, Sept. 13, understood. that M. Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister in London, in a visit yesterday to Sir Robert Vansittart, Diplomatic Adviser to the British Government, delivered a Note Jews Fleeing from Sudeten Areas Prague, Sept, 12, Hundreds of Jews began evacuating Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakin this afternoon a few hours before Herr Adolf Hitler's fateful Nuremberg speech.
Trains bearing hundreds of Jews from Karlsbad and other Sudeten cities arrived here throughout the day, Hotels were filled to enpacity by the sudden intux of frightened Jews who feared Herr Hitler's speech might lead to a violent anti-Semitic outbreak in the Sudeten arcas, Large numbers of Czechs also left areas virtually under the control of Herr Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten Germans, Violence earlier had broken out in scattered points in Sudeten territory and Czech were driven from various Czech towns leaving Czechs at the merey of the Sudetens, Most travellers planned to return to their homes within a few days if developments permit, but the majority brought most of their valuables with them in the belief that they might never again return to their native homes, Of an estimated 250,000 Jews in Czechoslovakia, at least 30,000 are those who aifeady have left their homes in Germany or Austria De-cause of frenzied Nazi outbreaks against the Jews. At least 5,000 of these have moved twice, first from Germany to Austria and Inter from Austria to Czechoslovakia when the Nazis invaded Austria,
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