The Archive · 1938

Berlin Press Angered

Berlin, June 3.

Another frontier violation occurred yesterday at 7 p.m, when a Czech police aeroplane, a dark blue monoplane bearing the Czech symbols and the letters O.K., was sighted at the German township of Koenigswalde, ten kilometres inside the German frontier, The authorities in other German villages also sighted the plane which finally flew back across Oberwiesenthal towards Czechoslovakia.

The German press this morning publishes graphic descriptions of extensive defence preparations made by the Czech Army in the moun-famous frontier region bordering the German province of Silesia, New incidents reported from Czechoslovakia, particularly the confication of a German swastika flag at the home of a German from the Reich and the maltreatment of a Reich German, have caused great indignation here, and the Berlin press yesterday evening prominently featured messages describing these incidents, using extremely strong language, The papers also referred to the damage suffered by the Sude-fen area in the last fortnight in

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