definite assurances today that they had received no instructions what fever from Rerlin to approach the Soviet Foreign Commissariat with regard to the "eventuality of German intervention in Czechoslovaki and Russian action in such event. They also specified that no such [communication has ever been made fo the Soviet Government.
It is true that the German Am. bassador here, Count Friedrich von lder Schulenburg, called upon the [Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim ILitvino on Friday, but' their conversation did not bear in any way upon the Sudeten problem, the same ofieials declared today. The Reich's Ambassador protested against the seizure of three German vessels plying on the Barentz Sea, they asserted, Two of the three ships have already been relosed, but one is still held by the Soviet " authorities, Assurances were also given that Grat von der Schulenburg, upon his arrival from a holiday," paid the customary call upon M.'Litvinoff to inform the latter of his return, At that time, the Czech question figured among the subjects discussed, but jonly in general outline, the German Embassy officials coneluded.—Havas.
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