Evening star., 1938-09-26
London
Continued From First Page.

measures-how they will move men,
varships and airplanes to the fighting
lines if they are drawn into war.
Roosevelt Appeal Received.
; A personal appeal by President
Roosevelt to Hitler to save Europe s
peace came amid the momentous con-
ferences and gave Europe's democracies
moral stiffening.
Behind them. the French Premier
. and foreign minister left the French
chief of staff, Gen. Maurice Gustave
Gamelin, to work out coordination Of
Frances fighting units with Britain's
for any eventuality.
Naval, military and aerial precau-
tions, meanwhile, assumed almost war
time dimensions in the Mediterranean.
British warships dotted North Sea
lanes The first Of Britaisl's $4,000, 900
gas masks were issued.
Parliament will meet Wednesday, it
was announced officially. Capt. Edward
Fitzroy. speaker, issued the notice
shortly before pm. g am. E. S. To.
The House Of Commons will meet at
2:4s pm. and the House Of Lords at
4;15 pm. Wednesday.
The House of Lords will adjourn as
soon as it Is called to order and the
peers will 60 to the House Of Com
mons gallery to hear Prime Minister
Chemberlain's detailed account Of his
negotiations with Chancellor II tier,
and other developments, including the
defense measures already set in train
by the government.
The quick message to Hitler, who
later today is to address the entire
Reich" was sent while Frances Pre-
mier, foreign minister and army chief
of staff met with British ministers to
complete specific. joint war plans.
Demands Are Held Unacceptable.
The conferences, which started yes-
.terday, came as informed sources dis
closed that both France and Czecho-
slovakia had held unacceptable Hitler's
demands for partition of Czechoslo-
vakia by October /.
! Joined in defensive military al
iiance. France and Britain we're on
4 preparedness footing. The British
home feet was in the North Sea and
France had more than 100000 men
under arms.
Sir Horace Wilson, one of Mr.. Cham
'berlain's close advisers, left by air for
Berlin with the letter, the nature Of
which was not disclosed.
Reply to Roosevelt.
Before NJ Daladier and M. Bonnet
took of from Croydon Airdrome at
315 pm. (9:15 am, E. S. t. the
French premier was understood to have
sent a grateful reply to President
Roosevelt's peace message.
British air raid precautions authori-
. ties appealed urgently for recruits
Rumbline trucks bore balloon barrage
eduipment-London's sky barricade
. against air attack-to position.
At least one industrial city ordered
parks dug up for air raid refugees.
Note Kept Secreth.
Britain, Of course. kept secret what
Sir Horace was taking back to Hitler
now that the Czechoslovaks seem Ger
tain to reject the ultimatum.
But there were these reported pos
hbilities:
/. A fervent appeal to Hitler to
leave the door open to peaceful set
tlement.
4. Suggestions for an alternative
to the ultimatum which would let
Hitler show his troops to some part
Of Sudetenland and yet prevent GER
tain strangulation of the rest of Czech
.oslovakia.
3. A nat notice that Britain and
France would not push Prague into
acceptance of the ultimatums
1. "A plain statement that German
war on Czechoslovakia was certain
to bring the Western democracies into
action against Germany-ultimately
if.not Immediately.
A. the French ministers departed,
the British Inner Cabinet Council
MET at the ofiices Of the Committee
on Imperial Defense.
= AT the session were Viscount Hall
fax. foreign secretary: Sir John Simon,
chancellor Of the exchequer; Sir Sam
uG Hoare, home secretary; Sir Thomas
1nskip, minister for coordination of
defense; Leslie Hore- Belisha, secretary
for war; Alfred Dun Cooper, flrst lord
Of the admiralty. and Sir Kingsley
Wood, secretary of state for air.
An earlier meeting of the full cabi-
net had followed the British French
MN n q f{ons and can ravn .l;o'e no~
ference with Sir Thomas. The French
commander lunched with viscount
.0prt chief Of the British imperial