ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1929, Page 5

ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE

MISSION’S WARM WELCOME.

.(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 2. The “Morning Post’s” Riga correspondent says: The British Trade to Russia Delegation have had a surprising reception at Moscow, where 'the Communists acclaim the event of their visit as being of tremendous import, and as showing the strength of the Soviet's international position. The delegates were warmly welcomed* in the very streets were Mr Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain were paraded in effigy only six months ago. The newspapers claim that the visit is an evidence of a persistent desire of. British industrialists to establish themselves on the Russian markets, and that it indicates that the industrialists disapprove of the policy of isolation against the Soviet . . SHOPKEEPERS RUINED. . - LONDON April 2. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent states: Owing to the scarcity of essential products, and also to recent Soviet measures that have been designed, to prevent the private traders from receiving any flour, butter,. textiles, and footwear from the Soviet stocks, a great number of the traders have been forced into liquidation. The official figures mention that five hundred shops have been closed in Leningrad alone. One result has been to accentuate the rise in prices. ’ MORE EXPULSIONS. BERLIN, April 2. A; local Russian newspaper “Roul” says that the Soviet has expelled fnjtn Russia, Rakovsky, formerly the first Envoy to Britain, and Bieloborodoff, who took a leading part : in the plot to assassinate the Tsar.