RUSSIA.

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RUSSIA.

j TRADE WITH BRITAIN. j ' NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUED^ (Br Cable—Pre*s Associntior. —Copyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received December 12th, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON. December 10. Sir R. S. Home nnd M. Krassin are cont : nuing tho trade negotiations, which are believed to be progressing, but there is a difference regarding tlu\ price of the gold sent to England. Russia claiming the market price, but it is pointed out that the Bank of England recently paid the statutory price for a Continental shipment, and protests have been made against treating Russia preferentially. THEATRES NATIONALISED. (Received December 12th, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, December 10. • Russian theatres and amusements will be nationalised on January Ist, and admission will be free. PROPAGANDA WORK. (Received December 12th, 5.3 p.m.) PARTS, December 10. Reports from Poland state that the Bolshevists aro employing fifteen thousand asrents abroad. Two secret printing "flicos are working in England, in France, and seven in America. Fisrht thousand asrents are employed in England, 540 in Italv, and six hundred in Poland, where they have discontinued tho importation of literature from Franco nnd Italy, as all the literature is now printed locally. Secretly, every Fnropean country has its Bolshevist library. Ther socnt ninety million roubles in Poland during April alone.