BRITAIN AND RUSSIA
TROTSKY’S STATEMENT. (“Times’’ Service). LONDON, April 4. ‘‘The Times’s” Faris correspondent states that when interviewed at Moscow by the “Excelsior,” M. Trotsky admitted that the British Government had made proposals to Russia asking, on certain conditions, for the extraterritoralisation of a considerable zone in the city of Port Petrograd, which zone would eventually become a British base- M. Trotsky added that the Soviet had not replied, but was considering the question. BERLIN, April 4. M. Tchitcherin, interviewed by the “Vossiche Zeitung,” expressed pleasure at Mr Lloyd George’s statement in the Commons that the most important task at the Genoa Conference would be a reduction in land armise. He eulogised the British Premier’s ideas regarding general peace and his reconstruction programme.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1922, Page 5
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