KRASSIN MISSION

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 3 June 1920, Page 5

KRASSIN MISSION

GENERAL TRADE PROPOSALS

[Pbem AaaoeiAiioN.] : iAtvk aM N.Z. Ascsn «nd Iloi'tor.) (Received Juno 3, 9.20 a.m.) LONBON, June 2. It is understood that the British' Government will insist on the release of British prisoners in .Russia befqro assenting to* a resumption, of trade. To-<lay: s meeting botw<?on. KrassiiY a'ndi British Ministers ..dealt with only general trad^e proposals, not with any question of recognition, the object being to discover what Russia needed and what she was aibl© to export. It was made~ clear that trade could - not be conducted simultaneously with propaganda.