RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 April 1928, Page 3

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

GOVERNMENT’S KNOWLEDGE OF WAR PREPARATIONS. EARL BIRKENHEAD’S MISSION. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) LONDON, April 23. . ...Jp. the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, answering a question, said that it would not be m the public interest to publish the available information regarding the Soviet’s preparations for military, naval and aerial warfare. He did not propose to consult Parliament before replying to Air. Kellogg’s outlawry of war note. . Earl Birkenhead’s visit to Germany was purely a. personal one, and was not undertaken for official purposes. . «■'. _> , Commander Kenworthy; “Have you read the reports of .Earl Birkenhead’s speeches in the German Press and their repercussion in the French Press?” Air. Baldwin siiid: that.die liad seen nothing in which Earl Birkenhead:, had, not expressed the desirability* of living on peaceful terms with their neighbours'.

Commander Ken worthy: ,f \Vas it only in a private capacity that Earl Birkenhead preached an .Anglo-German alliance against Russia?” Ministerial cries: “Why not?” /