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PACT NEGOTIATION. Speedy Decision Sought By Britain. INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSCOW. Lnited Proses Association.—Copyright. (Received a.m.) LONDON, July 13. Xew instructions aimed to bring the negotiations with the Soviet to a speedy conclusion have been sent to the British Ambassador in Moscow, Sir William Seeds, says the "Daily Express," according to an Independent Cable Service message.

The position was reviewed bv the Cabinet yesterday, .Ministers concluding that if tlie new inst met ions do not produce an agreement within a reasonable time, it is useless to pursue the lic;:ot iat ions. Ihe 'limes' says that a long and complicated eommunieat.ion was sent to the Ambassador. It contains no new instructions, hut merely clarifies points previously discussed.

EUROPEAN REACTION. Analysis Of Comment On Prime Minister's Speech. FREE CITY PROBLEM. KL'GISV, July 13. "The Tin'ics" devotes another leading article to Mr. Chamberlain's statement on Danzig in the House of ('ominous oil Monday, and the reaction to it in the rest of the world. "The Time.-" says: "The great merit of Mr. Chamberlain's statement is that for all its firmness it was scrupulously fair, and placed the problem in its historic perspective. 11l Warsaw the speech was welcomed for being sensible as well as for being strong. "The Italian Press is editorially silent. Even in (iermany the statement had not—in the first instance at any rate—produced quite the outburst of vituperation which has come to be the almost automatic response to British statesmen's declarations of policy since Herr Hitler's Keiehstag speech of April 28. "Constant reiteration of extreme national views has led to a state of affairs in Nazi (iermany in which the individual has almost renounced his intellectual maturity. Vet it is noticeable that (ierman Press comment on Mr. Chamberlain's speech, although it generally asserts that the situation has been made worse by it, lias so far on the whole been reasoned and varied."

"The Times" emphasises that Danzig is not purely a German question, but an international one, and could be settled easily by co-operation. MILLION UNDER ARMS. GERMANY'S RESERVISTS. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. The British United Press Paris representative reports that advices received in high quarters state that Germany will have 1,000,000 reservists under arms by the end of the month.