HANDS OFF RUSSIA!

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 9

HANDS OFF RUSSIA!

RED ANGER IN MOSCOW,

CROWD OF ANGLOPHOBES. BRITISH MISSION IN DANGER. /■By Cable. —Press Association.-Copyright.) (Keceived 2 p.m.) MOSCOW, June IS. A big trade union demonstration protested against tlie British Note to the Soviet. Banners bore slogans like: "Hands Off Hussion Trade Unions!" "We W T ill Not •Renounce Solidarity with the Workers 0 f Other Countries.'" Meetings were held in streets and factories. Foot and mounted troops during the demonstrations guarded Vorovsky Street, where the British Mission is housed. They several times pushed back the crowds trying to pass into the building. Xlie Riga correspondent of the "Times" states that the Red trade unions have issued a Note to the world ■which sa3-s: "To expect the Soviet to forbid Russian unions to help the British miners is totally to misunderstand tlie spirit of the Soviet Government. The unions have helped, are helping and will help British miners because their cause is our cause." The newspaper "Izvestia" says: "The contributions were not the real cause of the Note, but they served as a convenient pretext to begin Britain's care-fully-planned assault on Russia to make us pay our debts."—(Rente;-.)