INCIDENT CLOSED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 70, 15 December 1932, Page 9

INCIDENT CLOSED

Allegations in Russian Newspaper BRITAIN’S PROTEST (Received Dec. 14, 5.5 p.m.) Official Wireless. Rugby, Dec. 13. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain R. A. Eden, to-day informed the House of Commons of the sequel to the recent vigorous protest which the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, bad made to the Soviet Government regarding allegations published in the newspaper “Izvestia.” Captain Eden said that the Soviet Ambassador had made an oral communication to the Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs to the effect that while the Soviet Government only took responsibility for official communications in the “Izvestia,” it desired to state that with regard to this particular incident it did not entertain, and had not at any time entertained, the suspicions of the Foreign Secretary and of the Foreign Office which were expressed in the article. On the contrary, it dissociated itself from such statements. The Ambassador later repeated this declaration, and that he himself had communciated with the editor of the “Izvestia.” who had now replied that he had been misled by one of bls correspondents, that he recognised the statements in question were inaccurate, and that he wished to express his regret for having published them. In these circumstances the British Government regarded the matter as closed.