The Archive · 1938

Czechs to Control Skoda Works

Germany May Demand — Right to Regulate All — Export of Arms

Paris, Oct. 7.

Czechoslovakia will retain control of the giant Skoda munition Works near Pilsen, the third largest in the world, as a result of the latest negotiations with Germany, but Berlin may demand the right to regulate all Czech: exports pf war supplies, French financiers were informed to-slit. S

As a result of negotiations, it was reported that the area of Germany's! Occupation of the Sudetenland will border just west of Pilsen, bringing! the main Skoda plants and their 17,000 skilled workers within range df German guns, French financiers were vitally concerned with the future status of the Bomb Explodes Off Jessfield Road Eight Chinese were injured when a bomb exploded in Japanese controlled territory oft Jessfield Road at about 7.15 o'clock yesterday evening. They were all inmates of House 17, Lane 957 Jessüeld Road, but whether the bomb was thrown or whether it exploded through careless handling could not be ascertained last night, as the area comes under the jurisdiction of the Japanese military and enquiries were in the hands of: the "Ta Tao" police, As far as could be learned, the injuries were mostly of a trivial nature, giving rise to the opinion that the bomb was more of the "cigarette tin" variety than of the real hand grenade type.

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