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Show RUSSIA AND GERMANY TEAM UP TO FORCE PEACE Oil NAZI TERMS ted as an implied threat of possible Russian military aid for Germany unless Britain and Franca agreed to peace. Russia and Germany declared in one agreement they would "concentrate "con-centrate their efforts If necessary in cooperation with the other friendly powers" toward ending the war between Germany and the allied British and French. "Should, however, the effort of both governments remain unsuccessful," unsuc-cessful," the declaration added, "the fact would thereby be estab- ; lished that England and Franc are responsible for a continuation of the war, In which case the governments govern-ments of Germany and the U. S. S. R. will consult each other as to necessary measures." The second agreement, called "the German-soviet Russian border bor-der and friendship treaty." divided Poland into two approximately equal parts between the two countries coun-tries and proclaimed they would "reject any interference In this settlement by third powers." Thi borderline, underlined as MOSCOW, Sept. 29 OTV Soviet Russia and Germany in a series of thre agreements teamed up today to-day to try to compel Britain and Franc to make peac on German terms, partitioned Poland with a hands-off warning to th rest of the world and projected an economic eco-nomic program by which th nazis would get Russian raw materials. Soviet Russia at almost the sam Urn announced a 10-year mutual assistance pact with Estonia, making mak-ing the little republic in effect a protectorate of her large neighbor by giving Russia the right to establish estab-lish naval and air bases and soviet garrisons on Estonian soil. The accord thus greatly extended extend-ed Russian power in the north Baltic A trade agreement with Estonia also was reached. The nsii-communUt agreements, concluded by German Foreign Minister Joachim von. Rlbbentrop and Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and Joseph Stalin, Included what was lntcrpro- aflHaJB m "final," was shown in maps issued later to require Russian troops to give up some territory they already al-ready had occupied under a previous pre-vious demarcation agreement .... -.- a iuuu uiu , were supposed to occupy the suburbs sub-urbs of Warsaw east of the Vistula Vis-tula river, they now are moved some 50 miles east of Warsaw. The Bug and the San rivers, rather than the Vistula and San rivers, become the main determining deter-mining factors In th boundary line. In the north a wedge between Germany and Lithuania, which experts ex-perts said would have allowed th Russians to outflank th Germans, has been removed and German East Prussia was rounded out. Russia's southern frontiers with Rumania and Bulgaria were not affected. Under the third agreement, Russia Rus-sia announced an economic program pro-gram would be drawn up under which she would deliver raw materials ma-terials to Germany which Germany Ger-many would pay for through Industrial In-dustrial products "to be delivered over an extended period." The sweeping pacts with Estonia, formerly Russian territory, were announced shortly before the German-Russian agreements. |