Minister, will broadcast to the nation from 10 Downing Street at 8 o'clock tonight (3 a.m. Wednesday, Shanghai time).
The speech will be relayed to all parts of the Empire through the short wave station at Daventry, as well as to America.
Herr Hitler's reply to the personal message sent by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, is expected to be brought back to London some time today by Sir Horace Wilson, of the British Foreign Office.
Sir Horace Wilson visited the Chan-collery at Berlin for 55 minutes yesterday afternoon.
It is understood that Marshal Her-this as a binding promise which formed the basis for the Godesberg conferences. If this promise is not fulfilled, there can no longer be a possibility of an unprovoked attack.
Fulfilment of the demands in the German memorandum within the stipulated period is, it is declared, merely a necessary consequence of the former negotiations which were conducted for the purpose of arriving at a peaceful solution of the Sudeten German problem. Failure to fulfil the promise given to Germany would create a situation clearly indicated by the Fuehrer in his speech made last night.—Trans-Ocean.
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