LONDON Earl Stanhope, the Leader of the House of Lords, read the Government's reply to Adolf Hitler to peers this afternoon because Viscount Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, was suffering from a bad throat.

LONDON Clement Attlee, the Labour leader, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader, both backed Neville Chamberlain's answer to Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons this afternoon that it is impossible for Britain to accept peace proposals from Adolf Hitler that rest on recognition of Germany's conquests.

NEW YORK The American ship Iroquois reached New York safely yesterday with Americans returning from Europe, newspapers in the United States report this morning.

MOSCOW A protocol setting out where Soviet land and air forces will be stationed in Estonia has been signed in Tallinn, the Estonian capital, Moscow newspapers reported this morning.

MOSCOW Juho Kusti Paasikivi, the Finnish Minister in Stockholm, has arrived in Moscow for talks with the Soviet Government, Moscow newspapers reported this morning.

MOSCOW The Soviet Union and Lithuania have signed a mutual assistance pact in Moscow under which the city of Vilna and its district pass to Lithuania, the Lithuanian Government announced in Kaunas, its seat of government, yesterday morning.