POWERS AND SOVIET.

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1927, Page 5

POWERS AND SOVIET.

GERMANY’S ATTITUDE. Trade Support Refused. (Received June 20 at 9.5 p.m.) (Sun Cable.) LONDON, June 19. The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent says: M. Tchicherin (Soviet Foreign Minister) has departed for Mos cow. He lias failed to induce the German Government to allow the Russian Trade Delegation from London to establish itself, preferably at Hamburg, where it -would occupy a different field to the Soviet’s Berlin Delegation. He was also unable to arrange for new credits. LONDON, June 20. The Polish Tribunal at Warsaw, explaining Kowerda’s sentence, states that the death penalty is only proper when the crime threatens to become epidemic. The Kowerda crime raises no such fears. Therefore a life sentence is sufficient, but extenuating circumstances of the youth, his high moral character, and the fact that Kowerda may ultimately become a useful member of society, renders fifteen years sufficient.

That the Bolshevik propaganda abroad, and the execution in Russia created a very unfavourable impression among the Powers is Chancellor Marx’s parting message to M. Tchitcherin, who has gone to Moscow. Among the latest crop of remarkable official documents is the allegation that Elvengren confessed he endeavoured to obtain Henry Ford’s support of a plot to kill M. Tchitcherin when recently in France, for which it was hoped to get money from America. The Finnish. Government is dissatisfied with the Soviet reasons for the executions at Elvengren, and is demanding amplification. The Zeitung Amittag reports that the Soviet secret police arrested five Germans at a Moscow hotel for alleged espionage.

The Morning Post’s Geneva correspondent is authoritatively informed that representations to Moscow regarding the activities of the Third International will probably be conveyed through Herr Stresemann, who will in-, form t'he Soviet that, while Europe is most desirous of maintaining friendly relations, there is a limit beyond which it will not tolerate excesses. The correspondent adds —Herr Stresemann is greatly chagrined over M. Briand’s departure, of which no warn ing had been given, and has since caused the postponement of deliberation: over the zone question for at le/ st a month.