EMPIRE'S CAPITAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1038, 10 June 1924, Page 10

EMPIRE'S CAPITAL.

HOW BOLSHEVIKS SEE IT. "LIGHTS, LIGHTS, LIGHTS." LONDON, May 24. "Though most of the newspapers protested against our coming to London, people here are not much interested in politics. They mostly read about weddings and lost dogs, and the most important news items show women how to make their own drosses. Fashions, fashions, nothing but fashions." This, says the Riga correspondent of the Times, is* an extract from an article describing his impressions of England which M. Katuzoff. one of the Bolshevik delegation now attending the Anglo-Russian Ccfnfarence, contributes to the Moscow newspaper Isvestia. The three things which seom to have impressed him most arc—the speed of the trains; the lights—"lights, lights everywhere, oceans of lights"; and the street traffic , ,• , , i Describing the conference, which he believes will terminate successfully, M\ Katuzoff says: "We began on the debts of the Czarist regime. O you debts, how bic vou arc! Curse you! And what quarrels 'and what hagglings—just like a rag market. It is a good thing that this is a civilised country, otherwise _ there would have surely been a free fight.