SOVIET AMBASSADOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 7

SOVIET AMBASSADOR

CEREMONIAL RECEPTION IN GERMANY. 8y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, September 3. The new Russian Ambassador to Germany, M Alexander Shkvartzev, was received in Berlin with military honours. He Was received by HenHitler and Herr von Ribbentrop. The Soviet relieved of his duties the former Ambassador, M Markaloff, who negotiated the non-aggression pact. M Shkvartzev is believed to be a comparatively obscure official. A report that a Russian military mission arrived in Berlin is denied in authoritative Soviet circles in London, the so-called head of the mission being merely the new miltary attache, accompanied by his staff. ACTION BY EGYPT RELATIONS WITH GERMANY SEVERED. NEW YORK, September 4. The Cairo correspondent of the United Press of America reports that Egypt has severed diplomatic relations with Germany. RUSSIAN ARMY RESERVISTS CALLED UP. LIMITED PUBLICATION OF NEWS. MOSCOW September 4. Civilians of the Red Army Reserve have begun registration. Numbers and classes are not known, but it is believed that a similar order has been issued in other large centres. The British declaration of war and the French decision to aid Poland are not widely known in Moscow. The newspapers briefly report world events. P.O. Box 54. 'Phone 1216. SELLAR & SELLAR, STOCK & SHAREBROKERS. 8 PERRY STREET, MASTERTON. G. W. Sellar Country Member Wellington Stock Exchange.