“COMMON ROBBERS.”
RUSSIAN CONFISCATION OF BRITISH PROPERTY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. In the House of Comons Mr G. Lock er-Lampson, Under-Secretary for For-: eign Affairs, told a questioner that the value of industrial manufacturing property in Russia of which Britishers were deprived without compensation, was estimated at 180 millions sterling. Negotiations with the Soviet regarding this property had never reached a satisfactory result. In the negotiations cf 1924 the Soviet laid down conditions which Britain could not possibly accept. . . “We are waiting for the Soviet to make constructive proposals, but none haye so far been forthcoming,” he said. . Cl Colonel Hall (Cons.): “Then the Soviet Government can be classed as common robbers.”
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1927, Page 5
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