officially slated that Prague has accepted the Munich plan the cession of the Sudeten areas in.
Czechoslovakia.
"The Czech Government," the statement asserts, "after considering the decisions taken without and Against them, has no alternative to accept them, is. officially stated in Prague this morning that Czechoslovakia had received, through Mr. Basil Cochrane Newton, the British Ambassador in Prague, a message from Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British' Prime Minister, saying that he expects Czechoslovakia to reply to the declsions reached at the Munich Confer-fence yesterday, by noon today (7 pin, Shanghai time).
The oficial statement adds: "The Czechoslovak Government has expressed to Mr. Newton its utter amazement at being given such a short time to consider a matter of such historic importance and of such crushing responsibility."
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