RUSSIA.
INVESTIGATORS OF CONDITIONS,
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
(Received Sept. 25, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 24. The general council of the Trade Union Congress, at its first meeting in London, decided to, appoint a special commission to visit Russia and investigate, industrial, social and .political conditions. The commission will include Mr Herbert Smith, president of the Miners’ Federation,- Mr John, Bromley, of the Locomotive Men’s Union, and two Commoners, Messrs Purcell and Ben Tillett.—Renter. ‘ THE FLEET. FOUR YEARS’ PROGRAMME. RIGA, Sept. 24. Advices from Moscow state that the Soviet naval programme • for the next four years provides for a Baltic fleet of two light cruisers, four torpedo boats, seven submarines-and three antisubmarine cutters; a Black sea fleet of one cruiser, eight torpedo boats, twelve armoui-ed cutters and six mine sweepers; for the Pacific, four gunboats; ~and for the Arctic zone, two igunboats.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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