L 55 VICTIMS.
REMOVAL FROM RUSSIA.
SOVIET AGREEABLE. BRITISH WARSHIP NOT WANTED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service) Received 10.40 a.m. to-day. MOSCOW, Aug. 22. It is officially stated in reply te the British report that the Soviet has not replied to the British Government’s request for permission to remove the bodies of the crew of the 1.55 to England for burial that “expecting the British Government would wish to transfer to the Motherland the Loo bodies, the Soviet authorities from the very beginning took appropriate measures and were careful to preserve the personal belongings of the victims, in order to hand them over to the relatives.” The British Government has inquired through the Norwegian mission on the possibility of sending a warship to transfer the L 55 bodies to England. The Norwegian Government was informed that the Soviet did not object to the arrival of a warship belonging to a friendly nation or a British merchantman, but could not consent to a British warship entering Soviet territorial waters.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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175L55 VICTIMS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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