FRIENDS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 27, 31 July 1924, Page 7

FRIENDS AGAIN

SOVIET AND GERMANY

RAID EPISODE CLOSED

RIGHTS OF TRADE DELEGATION. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPSRIOIIT.) ! (PUBLISHED i.N THE TIMES.) (Received 31st July, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 30th July. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that Germany and Russia are friends again. The diplomatic conflict which arose out of the police raid on the Berlin, offices of the Russian Trade Delegation in May have been settled and a protocol embodying the terms of the agreement has been signed. It provides that all the'measures taken as the result of the conflict, including the breaking-off of trade relations by the Soviet, • will be immediately withdrawn, and the Russian Trade Delegation will be re-established. Prescribed officials will henceforth receive a guarantee of extra-territorial rights. The Russian Ambassador, who lias been abseut from Berlin throughout the trouble, is expected to return in a lew days..

The rupture of trade re]atione between Germany and Kussia was caused by the action of German police in raiding and searching the premises of -the Soviet Trade Delegation in Berlin in search of a prisoner who had given them the slip. The Soviet Government protested bitterly against the alleged invasion of what, under the extra-territorial rights of a foreign Embassy, should have been immune from German police entry. The existence of such rXghts in respect to a .trade office was, however, denied by the German Government.