UNITED STATES' MOVE IN MOSCOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 236, 4 October 1940, Page 7

UNITED STATES' MOVE IN MOSCOW.

TALKS RESUMED.

Soviet Urged Not To Join

Japan-Axis Pact.

United Press) Association.—Copyright.

(Reed, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 3

Administration sources said the United Statee was attempting to discourage Russia frotn joining the Japanese-Italian>Gerinan alliance.

It js disclosed that informal RussoAmerican conversations have been resumed in Moscow. They are reported to be as a continuation of the conversation between Mr. Sumner Welles, Secretary of State, and M. Oumansky, Russian Ambassador to Washington, which collapsed partly because Russia demanded more liberal privileges in the United States for Russian "tourists," whom the United States contended too Often Were Communist agitators.

Washington officiate felt that there was & greater possibility of success in dealing directly with high Russian officials than with M. Oumanskvj whom Mi , . Welles is reported to dislike personally, so the United States Ambassador to Moscow, Mr. Li A. Steinhardt, when in Moscow last month was instructed to take tip the conversations there.

Hβ has been conferring intermittently with M. Molotoff, Soviet Premier end Foreign Commissar, and is reported to be making some headway.

The Administration sees little chance of Ruetia actively co-operating in combating the politidal • and military ambitions of' the tripartite pact signatories, but it hopes that Russia may be persuaded to remitin inactive, especially in the Faf East.

LONDON'S ORDEAL.

Journalists Prom Provinces Tour Bombed Areas.

EVACUEES' EXAGGERATIONS.

(Reed. 1 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 3,

To combat exaggerated storiee of London's Ordeal which evacuees carried to thj provinces, the Government took a party of journalists from all parts of the United Kingdom on a tour" of the worst bombed areas in the capital.

The journalists were unanimous that the devastation wee bad enough ill places, I>ut oft the whole not nearly as bad a» wa* thought. The worst eight was in dockland, Where there are lines of shattered bricks and rubble, Which were once streets and houses.

TO HELP NAZIS.

5000 ITALIAN AIRMEN.

(Reed. 12.30 p.m.)

LONDOST, Oct. 3.

The British United Prees correspondent on the German frontier says that 5000 Italian airmen, including ground staff, reached Germany by train. Numerous small groups of Italian planes were seen flying to Germany?

POACHING WORKERS.

CANADIAN INDUSTRIES

(Reed. 11.30 a.m.)

OTTAWA, Oct. 3

The Labour Minister, Mr. McLarty, warned industries engaged in war contracts to cease poaching one another's employees and threatened Government action*