Berlin, Sept 15.
A general strike has been called in the Sudeten areas, the official D.N.B. news agency announced.
Factories in Reichenberg (Liberec) closed down as the workers quit. Newspapers ceased to appear in the streets.
The German Sudeten party claimed amalgamation with the Reich through a proclamation issued today by Herr Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten Leader, Eger (Cheb) and released by the D.N.B. here this morning.
"In this hour of distress, German Sudetens, I come before you, the German people, and the whole civilized world, and I declare that we want to live as free Germans, "we want to have peace and work again in our Fatherland, we want to return to the Reich," the proclamation said. "May God bless our fight for justice."
The proclamation then branded the attacks against defenceless Sudetens by Czech machine-guns, armoured cars and tanks.
"The Czech system of oppression reached the climax," the proclamation exclaimed, "Thus, the Czech people have proved before the whole world that common life within that state has become definitely impossible,"
Tt further recalled that the German Sudetens were included in the Czech state in 1919 against their own will and without being able to use the right of self-determination contrary to solemn promises given them: The Sudetens had made utmost efforts to ensure their existence in the Czech state; all efforts for a reasonable and equitable compromise failed owing to the destructive determination of the Czech rulers,—Havas.
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