Berlin, Oct. 20. The official news agency announced Berlin, Oct. 20.
Military occupation of the Sudeten German territories having come to an end, the executive power will pass into the hands of German civil authorities as from tomorrow, states a communique issued here today.
In this connection, the Fuehrer despatched a telegram to the Commander-in-Chief of the army, General Wilhelm von Brauchitsch, which states:
"The occupation of the Sudeten German territory carried out by parts of the army, air force, police, and Storm Troopers of the S. and S.A. is now ended. Under the protection of the defence forces of the Reich, 3,500,000 German people have returned to the Reich once and for all Their needs will now be looked after by a civil administration as from October 21, 1938. 1 hereby relieve you of your charge, acknowledging at the same, time the commendable ce-operation of all authorities concerned in the exercise of the executive power. The whole German people joins our countrymen of the Sudeten German territory in expressing thanks for the liberation of today that the recent conversations at Munich probably opened the way to an early solution of the Czech-Hungarian dispute over territories to be ceded to Budapest.
During the conversations, Slovak and Rutheniah representatives whose territories in Czechoslovakia are demanded by Hungary—conferred with Herr Adolf Hitler and Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop—United Press.
Tokyo, Oct. 20.
At approximately 2 p.m. on Tuesday, eleven Soviet soldiers illegally seized a sandbank in the Amur river, in Manchoukuo territory, and after burning bushes and other shrubs, started constructing military works, press messages received in Tokyo from. Harbin revealed. 3 The Manchoukuoan foreign affairs commissioner at Harbin, the press messages added, lodged representations with the Soviet Consul-General at Harbin demanding the immediate withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the sandbank.—Domei.
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