RUSSIAN LETTER.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 9

RUSSIAN LETTER.

TRADES UNION ENQUIRY. BRITISH DELEGATION CON- , VINCBD OF FORGERY. (BY CABLE—TRESS ASSOCIATION" —COT TRIG TIT) {aUSTBASJAN AND J.-.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 27th, 8.0 p.m.) LONDON, November -7. The "Daily Herald" publishes a telegram, signed severally and unanimously l>y tho meinlvors of the British trades union delegation visiting Russia, stilting that they enquired into the matter of the Zinovieff letter with M. Zjnovieff, who maintained strongly that the letter was a forgery. He placed at the disposal of the delegation confidential records of the Communist International. The delegation was absolutely satisfied that the document was a forgery, and the members are bringing homo the full results of their detailed investigations. A separate despatch from a correspondent iu Moscow states that, as the result of a week's conversations, the British and Russian delegates arrived at an agreement to create an Anglo-Russian Committee for world trade union unity.

MOSCOW AND THE LETTER. "WE WON'T RETREAT." (Bl CABLE —PBESS ASSOCIATION —C0FTBl(?H?> (KBUTES's TEySqBAMS.) MOSCOW, November 26, Commenting on the British Nptcs t]ie official orgap "I?vestia" §Qy§ that Mr Austen Chgmberlain does not prove the authenticity of the Zinovieft letter. His asserted connexion between tho Communist Intel-national and the Soviet Government is simply absurd.

"\Vo must consider Mr Chamberlain's Note not only ns an attempt to exert pressure on the Soviet Government, with a Tiew to compelling it to grant concessions, but as a great provocation which wo. regard unmoved. Our position is strong, we won't retreat.''

Tho -l'ravda' 1 accuses Mr Chamberlain of trying to shuffle tho cards.