London, Aug. 24 Britain's warships were ready to man battle stations in the North Sea ast night and the regular Army and the Territorials are ready for action, 'Anti-aircraft batteries in' London are being manned on a 24-hour basis.
The American Consulate here was swamped with enquiries yesterday by American tourists planning to travel in nations which might be involved in a general European war. The American Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Kennedy, conferred yesterday with Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax. Ocean liners bound for the United States yesterday were crowded and carried many tourists hurrying out of the European danger zone—United Press.
German Warship's Engine Trouble London, Aug. 24.
It Is reported from Lowestoft that the scheduled arrival there of the German gunboat Weser will not take place. The harbour authorities say the reason is "engine trouble."
Lowestoft trawlers have received instructions to remain in port, while those Ashing in the North Sea have been called back by The s. Viceroy of India which was fo have left from Southampton on Saturday for a cruise will not make New Salvation Army Chief Elected London, Aug. 25.
George Carpenter has bees elected as new General of the Salvation Army—Trans-Ocean, aggression pa providing that both Powers will abstain from all individual or collective ai cession.
The treaty was concluded in the historic Kremlin at midnight last night.
Signatories of the pact were the German Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, who arrived in Moscow only at 1 p.m, yesterday, and M, Viacheslav Molotoff, the viet Foreign Commissar id President of the Commissars' Council.
Present at the simple ceremony, which followed long hours of urgent parleys through the afternoon ind night, were M. Josef Stalin, the "Strong Man" of Soviet Russia, and Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, the German Ambassador.
Herr von Ribbentrop is now to leave Moscow by plane at 1 pin, today to fly directly to the Berghof, Herr Adolf Hitler's villa retreat at Berchtesgaden, where he is to present the Fuehrer with a personal and exhaustive report on his 24-hour visit the Soviet capital.
Announeing signature of the nonaggression pact, official D.N.B. news fageney issued a special communique reading as follows:
"Joachim von Ribbentrop Wednesday, August 23, held a threchour conference with Viacheslav Molotov and Josef Stalin in the presence of Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenbur "The German Foreign Minister went to the Kremlin at 10 pan, on Wednesday to purse negotiations which concluded in an agreement on a nonfageression pact between Germany and the U.SS.R. which was signed by Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Foreign Commissar Molotoff in the presence of Josef Stalin and Count von der Schulenburg."
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