Munich, Sept. 30. Four-Power Agreement ending the Czechoslovak crisis was ligned in the first hour of Friday morning.
It was precisely 28 minutes past midnight when Chancellor Hitler, after consultations which lasted eight hours, as the first of the four statesmen sign the agreement, put his signature to the peace document providing for the transfer of Sudetenland to the Reich in accordance with the plan of gradual occupation by German forces commencing on October 1.
The next to sign was Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister.
Then Signor Benito Mussolini and the French Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, signed the document.
The scene of this historic act was Chancellor Hitler's stateroom in the Fuehrer House in which the four statesmen had assembled with their chief advisers to hear the final reading of the text.
During this concluding ceremony, the four chief actors in this great Grama were seated together with their colleagues at a round table forming a semi-circle in front of a large fireplace surmounted by the picture of Prince Bismarck, the "Iron - Chancellor." Among those present were Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; M, Leger, Secretary General of the Quai d'Orsay; Sir Horace Wilson as well as the British, French and Italian Ambassadors to Germany. Also, present were Field Marshal Hermann Goering; Herr Rudolf Hess, the Fuehrer's Deputy; Baron Kons-tannin von Neurath, President of the Privy Council, and Baron von "Weizsaecker, Secretary of State in the German Foreign Office.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.