SOVIET GOODS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1933, Page 6

SOVIET GOODS

IMPORTATION INTO N-Z

CABINET MEETS ON MONDAY

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WELLINGTON, April 20

Interviewed by telephone at hi s home at 'Cheviot to-day, tb, a Premier (the Hon. O. W. -Forbes), .said ; that the (Government would .take into immediate .consideration .the .question of pi'ohibitiiijg. the imports .of Russian .goods i nto .Zealand, ,qn th, a lines ,qf action •taken by -th e British -Goyorpment.

.}Re iW5b •ret.urp'ing to .Wellington on iSunday, and Cabinet .would oe’ convened op /Monday t 0 discuss ; the,situation.

VICKERS (URGES .COMMUTATION

release may mean LIFTING OF

embargo

1 (this day at 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. The Metro Vickers company has (telegraphed the central -executive of (the Soviet urging commutation of the .sentences on Thornton and MacDonald. The latter’s petitions -may be answered ito-morrow, and refusal is deemed unlikely. Tiie Russian counsel is lodging a [Petition that Nordwall’s wife be per;mitted to accompany her husband to •England, though she is a Soviet citizen. If-the embargo is imposed, Australia and New Zealand are not likely to benefit greatly, because the Soviet exports to 'Britain continue to decline drastically. The “-Sun” understands that Thornton and MacDonald’s immediate release would cause Britain to reconsider, and probably remove the embargo before it operates.

.RUSSIAN IMPORTS INTO N.Z

-VALUE SHOWS AN INCREASE.

WELLINGTON, April 20

Official figures show that there has been p marked drop in the value of Russian imports since 1928, but an indication -that thfe drop is about to b.e arrested is provided by the figures for the first 'three months of the present year. The .value of the imports for the three months is £32,179, and of, this amount, petrol accounts for £23,109. Direct exports from New Zealand to Russia are negligible.

PETITION MADE. FOR REPRIEVE

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MOSCOW, April 19,

An appeal is .impossible as Ulrich has declared the sentences, are final. The only path, open to MacDonald and Thornton is to .petition the central executives committee for a reprieve, and -this they .have done.

The departure of the engineers to be deported has been postponed until April 20. They cannot leave till their passports are visaed.

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: ENDS

LONDON, April 10. The expiration of the Anglo-Rus-sian trade agreement ends diplomatic immunity. Thb Soviet trade delegation henceforth must obtain a permit to remain in England, and report regularly to-the police like other aliens.