SOVIET TRADE

Grey River Argus, 3 September 1927, Page 5

SOVIET TRADE

WITH NEAB EAST. LINE OF STEAMERS TO START. MOSCOW, Sept. 1. Following on a commercial expedition to Arabia, under the leadership of M. Bialkin, the Soviet is establishing a regular steamer service between Odessa and Arabia. M. Bialkin, whose errand was also political, reported that Russia’s flour, soap, petroleum, potatoes, barley and crockery would find market in Hedjaz, in Yemen, in Nejd, and in other centres, in exchange tor coffee and gum-arabic. The paper Investia emphasises that it is essential to thwart British Imperialism in Arabia.

EX-RUSSIAN STEAMER

MAY BE. RECLAIMED. (Received Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.) (Times Cable.) LONDON, Sept. 1. The Riga correspondent of the Times savs: The Soviet Court at Odessa will shortly give judgment as to whether the steamer Inkerman, which its mutinous crew recently brought to Odessa, after throwing overboard the mate and an engineer, belongs to the Sow et Thet Inkerman was once a xtusSian vessel, but “White” Bussians sold her to a Greek, for whom she plied to the Black Sea ports. The Soviet newspaper Investia de dares that the mutiny was due to the cruelty of the mate and the engineer, who fell overboard during a ■ Tt expresses the opinion that the in kerman will be declared a Soviet-own-led vessel.

RUSSIAN EXECUTION.

LONDON, September 1. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent says that after a case lasting six days Sergia, son of Colonel Solovieff, was shot on charges of conspiring to secure a state of terrorism, including attempts at assassination of officials in Leningrad, a power station explosion, poisoning in restaurants with the assistance of Latvian authorities, several of whose agents, were arrested.