SOVIET RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17060, 3 February 1921, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA.

TRADE WITH BRITAIN. A PROPOSED TREATY. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, February 1. According to a Moscow wireless message, Krassin states that the majority of those in influential circles in Great Britain are greatly in favour of trade with Russia, especially the co-opera-tives, who may be most profitably used for the sale of Russian materials. The differences between Russia and Great Britain, he says, are due to the latter's refusal to guarantee, unconditionally, the inviolability of Soviet property located in Great Britain, and also the difficulty regarding the importation of Russian gold into Great Britain. Krassin considers that a treaty between Russia and Great Britain will be concluded, and that America will enter into trade relations with the Soviet. SOVIETISM AND ENGLAND. ("The Times.") LONDON, January 31. At a congress of Bolshevik agents, held at Bremen, a Soviet agent to Great Britain reported that England, from the Soviet standpoint, must be regarded as almost hopeless. The situation was better in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, though the mis takes mado by the Moscow Soviet had made the Sinn Fein leaders its enemies. He declared that Plymouth, Cardiff, Birmingham, and Manchester were the real centres of the active communists, who, in England, did not exceed 20,000. Tho sympathisers numbered 100,000, while tho propagandists, mostly paid, totalled 1200. GERMANY AND THE BOLSHEVIKS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, February 1. Questioned in tho Reichstag as to whether 50,000,000 marks had been advanced to Lenin, Herr von Simon (For- : eign Minister) said there was nothing in the Foreign Office archives to .show ! that either Lenin or Trotzky had'ever been subsidised by the Government, nor i had military support been promised to Lenin.