JUDGMENT AGAINST SOVIET

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 September 1930, Page 5

JUDGMENT AGAINST SOVIET

LITTLE CHANCE OF RECOVERY

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RIGA, Sept. 11. “There is just as much chance of obtaining the money as of raising it on a used tramway" 'ticket,’ ; says the “Pravda,” commenting on the Lena arbtratan award. “The grown-ups Soott and -Stiltzee played a. childish game, but the trained pigs of the Moscow circus played a similar game better. British newspapers, having lost their last vestige of traditional British humour. have taken this' buffoonery seriously".”

A cablegram, of September 2 said: The Arbitration Court, which has been (considering a dispute between the Sojvet Government and l Lena Gold Fields, Ltd., an English company, gave judgment to-day that the company was prevented! ibv the Russian Government from carrying out its agreement. The. agreement was ended, and the Soviet Government was ordered to pay the Lena (Company £13,000,000. This was the considered judgment of the court, which consisted of Dr. Otto Stutzer, of Germany, described as the super-arbitrator, and Sir Leslie Scott, appointed l>v the Lena Gold Folds. Tliey isat at the Law Courts. London.