CLAIM OF THE SOVIET.
GOLD FROM WESTERN EUROPE
UNDER CZARIST OBLIGATIONS.
RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA.
ißy Cable-Press Assodation.-Copyright
! ■ (Received 11.00 a.m.) PARIS, November 25. The "Petit Parisien's" Berlin correspondent states that the Soviet proposes to claim from various European States their obligations to the Czarist Government, amounting to 800,000,000 gold roubles (nearly £200.000.000), and 750,000,000 in paper roubles, of which 500,000,000 gold roubles (£54.000,000) is claimed from London, and 110,000,000 roubles (£12,000,000) from Paris.
■ It is also reported that the German Government is negotiating with a group of American financiers and the Moscow Government with a view to the creation of a Russo-fJerman-American concern to exploit the Baku oil wells.
In Berlin it is believed that Ilerr Hugo Stinnes, as a. result of a conversation with Kra.ssin, went to London to discuss a plan to reconstruct Russia. Herr Stinnes favours obtaining German. British. French, and American capital, Germany undertaking the reconstruction work.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 282, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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154CLAIM OF THE SOVIET. Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 282, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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