ARCOS RAID.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7

ARCOS RAID.

INFORMATION SPREAD Governments Warned Of Soviet Propaganda. OWE BRITISHER SHOT. ■ British Official Wireless :, (Received l p.m ■> RUGBY, June 2S. In the House of Commons to-day Mr. G. D. Locker-Lampson. Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, slated that sneh information as was discovered dnrinir tie search at tie Arco* offices of the Russian Trade Delegation relating to Russian interference in domestic affairs in foreign conntries, has been comnmnicat.ed to tie Governments of the countries concerned. Replying to a further question on tb» death sentences without trial in Russia. Mr. Locker-Lampson eaid that although the Soviet criminal code lays down that punisiment is to be dc3enninc>d by iudicial bodies in accordance with their socialistic conception of the law. it wa* obvious that person* were put to death without what «ould be termed s trial in this oountrv. H" vas not aware of more tban one British subject. a Mr. I>avi«.on. wjju ha* suffered the death penalty, and according to the Soviet Government be had a rriaL Regarding the suggestion that persons desiring passport* to Kussia should be warned, he said the risks were so well ventilated in the Press that he thouctu a special warning was unnecessary/ Reference to the British Government • break with Russia «v made by Lord Grey. ex-Liberal Foreign s>ecretary in a S7»eech to-day, emphasising that the policy of the Soviet Government vras not the Russian national policy but one of world revolution. He said: "The British policy should be. a-s far as internal affairs in* Russia ere concernc-d. to }<-a\e them absolutely alono. **Ever>thing ui Russia is h> trains; human nature that the svstem will break down under its own ireight. 1 hope no British <~rovernmei)i will icsume relations with Moscow on any foo ing which is not genuine and sincere."