EXTRA EDITION. ALLIES AND THE BOLSHEVISTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 16 June 1920, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION. ALLIES AND THE BOLSHEVISTS

NO GROUNDS FOR ALARM IN

INDIA.

KRASSIN'S TRADE MISSION.

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN THINKS

IT WIUj FAIL

BY CABLE—PBESS A.-iauCIATIOJM—COPYRIGHT •;■ (Times.) (Received June 16, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 15. It is authoritatively announced that the Government of India is unaware pf any grounds for alarmist reports foretelling widespread Bolshevik risings in India in the autumn. The British Government has bought the Mauritius sugar crop of 203,000 tons.

Cabinet and Krassin discussed the Russian Government debts contracted

to 1917. Krassin completely denied liability, and intimated that if force of Circumstances compelled acceptance cf liability the Soviet Government v. ould

insist as a counterbalancing factor upon inheriting such rights as given to Russia under former treaties, even if the treaties were secret, including the cession, of Constantinople to Russia under the Treaty of London in 1915. Furthermore, it would write off the charges incurred in -overcoming the at- . of the ' 'White rebels' } if they -were; financed and supported, by any foreign ; Power, together with the cost oi. /repairing damages incurred in these •cainpaigias'. ; . . . ; financiers and business men repre- - Renting ten nations have concluded a - conference in Paris urging their respective Governments not to resume trade with Russia until an international agreement has been secured compelling the Leninites to fulfil the obligations incurred during the Czarist jegim©. The Jfranchester Guardian, one of the j most ardent supporters of the reopening of trade, now admits that Krasfiin's outlook is unpromising, and asserts that the British Government is really attempting to complete a de facto peace while unwilling to resume diplomatic relations, but Krassin has Dot yet secured satisfactory, assurances from Moscow. Meanwhile British firms are pressing for the restoration of their private property in Russia. Their insistence may contribute to the wrecking of negotiations.