THE SOVIET.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18723, 21 June 1926, Page 9

THE SOVIET.

I JJOTE FROM BRITAIN. TRADES UNION PROTEST. A BIG DEMONSTRATION. , , Quia PBBSB \SB(>CIATION COPTHIOHT I ™ (EEDTBE'S tbleosams.) MOaOOW, June 18. Big Trade Union demonstration? protested against the British Note to the Soviet. Banners bore slogans like the following:— "Hands Off Russian Trade Unions." '■*' "We Will Not Denounce Solidarity \fitb the Workers in Other CounMeetings were held in' the streets tries.'-' , jnd factories. Foot Bid mounted militia, during the demonstrations, guarded Vorovsky . •treet, where the British Mission was housed.. |l_ey several times pushed back the jioffds who were trying to paBS into the building. TELLING THE WORLD. , , ("THE TBIEB "1 LONDON, June 18. flje Riga correspondent of "The Ames" states that the Bed Trade Molts have issued a Note to the Wd, which says:—"To expect the Ibrjtt to forbid Russian Onions to help the British miners is totally to jjinnderstand the spirit of the Soviet Government. The Unions have helped iud are helping, and will help the British miners because their cause is gn oanee. > T_e newspaper 'lzvestia" says:— •The contributions were not the real kajj of the Note, lut they served a feontwiient prextext to begin Britain's (we f fl ]ly.planned assault on Russia to Bike « pay our debts." "THESE MISCREANTS." pJSTON CHURCHILL SPEAKS OUT. i(RSVTES'S TEI_OBA_3.) (Reeoivcd June 20th, 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. Mr Winston Churchill did not mince «otds in his references to. the Russian Wrtunent in a speech at Alexandra _i_*» in the course of a discussion £ the British strike troubles. He nil that the Russian Bolsheviks, *__ he described as "these misnbtti," bad ruined their own county, bttt were powerless to ruin ours. ftey thought that the same sort of ejjtnff Ifiih which they had bamboozled the jtagka woua suit Britain. The money « Wt.for the miners at the instance of « ttf Busdan Government was very m Ittflutg eoapared with what the Rustita had stoles from us. . j'Ttat the United States's policy to Jwla was the right one was proved jW fht tect that without in the slight' w eottntenaneing Bolshevik'principles \tof _ad done more trade with Russia tiitt ye had. In view, however, of. the traditional continuity of the British Wgn. policy, we had decided that the ' (reseat was not the time for a rupture «f rakUons. The situation was preeulote'. and Was being vigilantly ntehed., , Hj t «dled a warning that people lendiif money to Rnesia must understand «ut the British Treasury would in no drtuuttabcoa accept responsibility if %>W«e defrauded. If the Govarattpt'totind it necessary it would expel lie Soviet agents. No claim for losses Wall be entertained by the' Treasury. 1 He tdviud traders with Russia to get ' Jijatot or full security before their ] tyM left the Country. ] , TRADE AGREEMENT. 1 Uivailuir US H.Z CJLBLB ' ISSOCUTIOa.I LONDON, June 18. jEnen Unionist members of the Bw»e' of Commons, headed by Mr Q. l*tk*r-!_mpson, handed in a motion House of Commons which "con**M the subversive political activities in this country of Soviet organisaAdmitted for the purposes of trade ttdfc of opinion that the trade agree- •*»' with the Soviet ought to be terfimtei" tte motion will be debated on June