RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 491, 1 September 1922, Page 5

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

RECOGNITION BY JAPAN URGED. REGARDLESS OF OTHER POWERS. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received September 1, 9.10 a.m. TOJvIO, Aug. 31, The Mainiclii urges Japan to recognise the Russian Soviet Government regardless ot the attitude ot the oilier world Bowers, —A. and N.Z, cable. THE ARMY OF THE REDS. CONSIDERABLY REDUCED. HELSINGFORS, Aug. 31. M. Trotsky, when interviewed, declared that the Soviet Government had already expressed its readiness to reduce the Red army to a minimum, but the rest of Europe did not desire disarmament. The Russian army and navy had been reduced from 5,C00,000 to 800,000, and would not be reduced further unless there were genuine changes in the international situation, Insignificant forces were not sufficient to maintain order in Russia. On being asked it Russia could continue to exist without foreign credits, ho said he refused to believe a people numbering 160,000,000 could collapse, whether credits wore reduced or not. Russia’s misery was groat but Europe and the whole world would suffer greater if Russia was not admitted to the world’s economic life.—A. and N.Z. cable.

CONCESSIONS TO FOREIGNERS

UNITED STATES ALARMED. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. The State Department announces that Air Houghton, United States Ambassador to Germany, at an informal luncheon to M. Krassin and M. Tchitcherin in Berlin, asked them what was the Soviet’s attitude towards tho United States commission ot technical exports to study and report on the economic situation in Russia. The mission, he explained, would be in no sense a political one, and would act strictly in accordance with the outline of Mr Secretary Hughes’s policy when the latter < eplied to the invitation to tho Genoa Conference. The information supplied by the commission would aid the United States n determining what economic contribution it was able to make towards the ..reconstruction ot Russia. , „ . . . It is understood that the United Stales is concerned over tho large concessions Russia lias extended to foreign nations A and N.Z. cable.