RUSSIAN RIDICULE
ON ARBITRATION AWARD
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
RIGA, Sept. 11
“There is just as much chance of obtaining the- money as of raising it on a used tramway ticket, ,r says the Soviet paper, “Pravda,” commenting on the Lena award of £13,000,000 as against the Soviet and in favour of a British company that obtained mining concessions in Russia (the award being made by Arbitrators Stntzer. and Scott). The “Pravda” says: “The grown-ups, Scott and Stutzer played a childish game, but the trained pigs of the Moscow Circus played a similar game better. The British newspapers, having lost the last vestige of the traditional British humour, take this buffoonery .seriously. SOVIET AGENTS. ARRESTED IN EGYPT. CAIRO, Sept. 12 Two men, together with two Russian Jewesses, acting' as their secretaries, aID-ef whom are declared to be agents of the Soviet International, have been airested her on the grounds that they are allegedly concerned in the creation of a Bolshevist ■ Centre in Egypt, and particularly in the selection of Egyptian recruits for training in Moscow.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1930, Page 5
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