Prague, May 21. London, May 21.
A comprehensive fundamental plan UROPE is again gripped in tremendous excitement at reports that Storm Troopers and Nazi Black Guards are assembling in unusual strength in districts in Germany bordering Czechoslovakia.
Responsible quarters in Prague think that if the reports are true, the troop movements may be designed to influence waverers to yote for Herr Konrad Henlein, Leader of the Sudeten German Party, in the forthcoming municipal elections in Czechoslovakia.
The British Ambassador in Berlin, Sir Nevile Henderson, called at the German Foreign Office yesterday, drew the attention of Freiherr yon Weiszaecker, Secretary of State, to the rumours current that German troops had been moved towards the border from all parts of Germany, and asked for reassurances-Herr von Weiszaecker is understood to have immediately communicated with Gen, Fritz von Keitel, the German Commander-in-Chief, who replied explicitly that there were no extraordinary troop movements.
Assurances to this effect were conveyed to the British envoy.
Reuter's correspondent today toured the frontier from Cologne to Terision Grows in
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