Berlin, June 15.
A furious outburst against London reports that Chancellor Hitler is planning a new coup in Slovakia filled the Government-controlled German Press yesterday as well-informed military observers confirmed new troops movements in west Slovakia.
German troops already were reported to have begun the occupation Of a military zone along the Moravian-Slovakian border in accordance with the original German-Slovakia treaty drafted when Slovakia became a German protectorate after the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, German military leaders emphatic Under a flare of headlines Berlin newspapers published yesterday evening an official denial of rumours circulated by the foreign press about German troop movements in the vicinity of the Polish and Slovak frontiers.
London and Paris are accused of deliberately spreading "scare news" in order to distract the public attention at home from the impediments which are continuing to arise in the thorny path leading to an understanding with Moscow.
The German press prints these false reports with the object of revealing their tendentious character.
It is alleged in London for instance that German troops are preparing to enter Slovakia in order to convert
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