London, Apr. 19.
"Well-informed circles here believe an agreement has been concluded in Ankara between Great Britain and Turkey. The agreement will not be made public at Turkey's own request, they added. The accord is mainly of strategic value and it is not considered advisable to reveal the clauses setting technical details such as the passage of British vessels through the Dardanelles Straits before the negotiations with Soviet Russia ore concluded.
Commons Question The mature of the British commitments towards other powers was questioned in the House of Commons this morning, when Mr. Geoffrey Mander asked whether "in connection with the arrangements for mutual assistance with other countries a plan was under consideration to make of their reciprocal obligations a treaty open to the adherence of all countries, including Germany?"
"As I informed the leader of the Opposition yesterday, His Majesty's Government are still in consultation with the other interested Governments and I am not yet in a position to add anything to my recent statements" Mr. Neville Chamberlain replied.
Russian guarantees of aid in case of aggression against Poland, Rum-la and the three Baltic nations, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, form the chief objective of Anglo-Soviet parleys, diplomats revealed. M. Ivan Maisky, Russian Ambassador who returned to Moscow on a visit today, will probably succeed in speeding up the grant of such guarantees, they added. Russia has already agreed in principle to guarantee the integrity and independence of Rumania, it was understood, but the details of this act have not as yet been settled.
Ambassadoi s Ashes Arrive in Hirosi Saito, former Japanese Ambassador to Tokyo, arrived in Japan in the oria on Monday.
Upper picture shows the ashes being conveyed in a miniature ten at Yokohama with the Astoria in the background. condolences from Mr. Joseph C. Grew, American Ambassador to Japan, and Mrs Grew.
Mr. Grew and Captain R. K. Turner, U.S.N., Limits for Soviet Aid Britain, diplomats declared, wishes the Soviets to assert in general terms that they would assist any of the five countries named if asked by them to do so, under specially defined conditions which could give Berlin no reasons for complaining about an "encircling manceuvre.
The extension of a guarantee under these circumstances would not provide for mutual and automatic assist-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.