BRITAIN'S FIRM STAND

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 7

BRITAIN'S FIRM STAND

CONSTANT EYE ON BOLSHEVIKS

MISSION WILL BE WITHDRAWN.

(UNITED PRBSB A6SOOIATION.—COPIHIUHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN . NEW ZEALAND OABLB ASSOCIATION.)

(Received 11th May, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, 10th May

The Chancellor of the f Exchequer (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) promised the Opposition a chance to debate the Note to Russia on Tuesday.

Lord Curzon, simultaneously with the dispatch of the Note to Russia, instructed Mr. R. M. Hodgson, the British Agent, to return to England with the whole of the mission if the Soviet Government does not reply by next Thursday. If a reply is received within that period, and is clearly satisfactory, the mission must leave Russia immediately. The "Morning Post" says that in well-informed quarters in London there is an impression that the Note may provoke, conflict between the extremists, of whom Tchitcherin is the leader, and the moderates.

The "Daily Telegraph. states: i'The Soviet delegation in London does not expect compliance, and there are signs that they are making preparations for departure. Although the Bolsheviks tuoTT they have been watched, they are surprised at the accuracy of the Government's information. It is clear that Lord Curzon has not given out one •tithe of the precise information available regarding the Bolsheviks' activities in England,"