EMBARGO IGNORED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 93, 21 April 1933, Page 7

EMBARGO IGNORED

SOVIET PRESS ATTITUDE

(Received April 21, 9.10 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 18. :, The newspapers disregard the em* bargo placed on Russian goods and.de> clare \hat the British, agitation is aimed solely at* the Soviet trade in order to fulfil the Ottawa Agreements. * (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 20. The Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement expired last Monday. The embargo on, commodities, representing 80 per cent, of Russian' imports to Great Britain,* which, was proclaimed yesterday, fol«. lowing the sentences on. the British accused in the Moscow trial, is due to taka effect next Wednesday. . The Russian counsel of Thornton and Mac Donald, who were sentenced to threa years' and two year^' imprisonment respectively by the Soviet Court, intend lodging a petition for clemency with the Central Executive Committee of tha : Soviet.* ' ■*...* ■• *'* 'V ;