NUMEROUS STAFF

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1939, Page 5

NUMEROUS STAFF

ACCOMPANYING GERMAN MINISTER CLEAR DEFINITION OF PACT. SOUGHT BY BRITAIN. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) MOSCOW. August 22. All the Soviet newspapers publish without comment the news of Herr von Ribbentrop's visit, surprising the average citizen. Representatives of the military missions conferred this afternoon, but did not meet the Russians. Herr von Ribbentrop will bring a staff of 32 advisers, who will be quartered in a house next to that occupied by the British Mission. The British Ambassador. Sir William Seeds, conferred with M. Molotov this evening. M. Naggiar (French Ambassador) conferred with M. Molotov earlier. It is learned that Sir William Seeds has been instructed to ask M. Molotov for a clear definition of the RussoGerman pact. A Paris message states that the Quai d'Orsay announces that the military conversations with the Soviet continue despite the Russo-German pact. PACT PROVISIONS AN ITALIAN VERSION. ALLEGEDLY INNOCUOUS AGREEMENT (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) ROME, August 22. It is reported that the Russian-Ger-man pact pledges the parties to abstention from attacking each other, secondly, in the event of one party being the victim of an attack by a third party, the other will remain neutral, and thirdly, in the event of either committing an act of aggression, the other may denounce the agreement. POSSIBILITY EXCLUDED OF RUSSIAN ACTION AGAINST GERMANY. SIGNOR GAYDA’S VIEW. (Received This Day. 9.25 a.m.) ROME, August 22. Signor Virgino Gayda. in the Gionalo d'ltalia, says Poland is isolated by the pact. This does not affect other agreements Russia may make, but does exclude the possibility of Russia being dragged into operations against Germany. This affects not only Poland, but the East Mediterranean, where the policy of encirclement is especially intense. WAITING FOR NEWS INCLINATION ]N LONDON. (Received This Day 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. August 22. There is an inclination in high places to await a revelation from Moscow as to what the Soviet has really committed herself to—whether it is true, as reported from Rome, that there is a clause bestowing liberty on Russia lego to the assistance of any neighbour belonging to the pact who is subjected to aggression.