BRITISH APPEAL FAILS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 7

BRITISH APPEAL FAILS

SOVIET'S IMPUDENT REPLY

IRELAND, EGYPT, INDIA CITED.

(SHIWD PRESS ASSOCIATIONr-COriMOITO (PUBLISHED IN TEE HUES.)

(Received sth April, noon.)

LONDON, 4th April,

The execution of Budkovitch in the face of world-wide- protests at the condemnation has excited widespread .horror*.

The British Government's Note of protest evoked an 'insolent Soviet reply, which the British Representative at Moscow refused to accept, objecting to British interference with, law and order to protect spies and traitors. The Soviet Note quotes a telegram from a representative of the Irish Republic to France charging Britain with the assassination of political prisoners.

The Note concludes: "If similar incidents in Egypt and India to' those of prisoners in Ireland had been considered, it is hSfdly possible to regard an appeal in the name of humanity and the sacredness of life from the British Government as very convincing."

" The Times," in a leader, declares that this is a deliberate affront to Britain, and calls on the Government strongly to support Mr. Hodgson, its representative, and urges a deep and continued interest in Britain in the spiritual tragedy of Russia, within which the future is being shaped and in which we are intimately concerned.