DEALINGS WITH RUSSIA

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1032, 17 February 1927, Page 7

DEALINGS WITH RUSSIA

HOSTILE PROPAGANDA CONTINUES. , ' HOUSE of commons discussion. rAust. and N.Z. Cable). ' " , London. Feb. M. In the House of Communs, Com, ma.uder Locker-L'ampson, replying tp it question, said no communications had passed between the, Soviet, and the Foregin office' on the subject of China. Mr J, E. Davison (Labour): What is the date, of tlie last protest made to the Soviet in connection with their adtion in China ? Commander Lockef-Sampson: -That really does not arise out of the, question. Ho added that no communication- whatever had, taken place in connection with" M. Krassin’s successor. There had been no change in the Russian situation since Sir Austen Chamberlain’s statement on the matter. *• V. Mr Davison: No change, even in view of what has happened in China? Commander Locker-Lampsdn : I did nob say that. The official Soviet Press provides ample evidence of hostile propaganda against Britain without the necessity of the Foreign Secretary producing further evidence. Mr Ramsay MacDonald: If that is the case, the Foreign 'Secretary had occasion to complain. Has he done so? Commander Locker-Lampspn : Certainly, in interviews with the Soviet ) opt esenta live. The tip do agreement has been broken over and over again. Mr A. M. Samuel (Conservative) stilled that Britain, in 1925, sold Russia £19,000,000 worth of goods, and £14,500,000 in 1920.