Munich, Sept. 30.
Four-Power Agreement ending the Czechoslovak crisis was signed in the first hour of Friday morning. It was precisely 2 minutes past midnight when Chancellor Hitler, after consulta tions which lasted eight hours, as the first of the four statesmen to 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 Preaier, 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, tye four chief actors in this grea froma were seated together with their veollealgues at a round table forming @ semicircle in front of a forge fate place surmounted by the Fielire of Prince Bismarck, the Siron Chancellor." Among " those present were Count Dano, Italian Foreign Minister; Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minis-{err M, Leger, Secretary General of the Qual @'Orsay; Sir Horace Wilson well og the British, French and tlotian Ambassadors to Germany. Also present were Field "Marshal Hermann Goering; Herr Rudolf Hess, the Fuchrer's Deputy: Baron Kons-fan tin von Neurath, President of the privy Council, and Baron von Weisecker, Secretary of State in the German Foreign OMlce.
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governments. German 1 hun Fratee amd Britain. commenced day'noon were concluded in ihetinte hours of the evening. The devisons nerved a snack forth ihe sibjinedoctments are to. communeated forthwith to the Crechoslovak' Government. agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Vance and Tlaly was reached on Seplomber 29 at Munich. Germany, United Kingdom of Great Bri lain, France and Italy have, in view ihe record reached in principle with regard to the cession of the Swleten German territory, agreed upon the following conditions and niethods of this cession ud upon eastes to be adopted to bring it shout and declare themselves by vir~ tue of this agreement to be individ. ally responsible for steps which will eto Bo taken to ensure Its ful-
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