SOVIET DETERMINED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 8

SOVIET DETERMINED.

WILL NEVER JOIN LEAGUE. Received December 26, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 25. The Times’s Berlin correspondent says that M. Tchitcherin on departing for Moscow declared that the Soviet Union was as determined as ever not to enter the League under any circumstances whatever. The League was merely the instrument of capitalist machinations against weak countries and Colonial peoples. The Soviet would never surrender its freedom of action to such an organisation.—Times.

TURKEY AND RUSSIA. TREATY*' JOYOUSLY HAILED. Received December 26, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 25. The Times’s Constantinople correspondent says that the Turkish press joyously hails the Turco-Soviet treaty, describing it as a masterly retort to the League’s iniquitous Mosul decision. It is declared that Turkey hag no aggressive designs, but that the treaty is merely the natural outcome of tho Locarno Pact which, it is contended, is really aimed at the Eastern nations. Turkey, consequently, is justified in coming to an understanding with: a Power whose interests are identical with her own.

“It is Turkey’s duty and pleasure to say that she feels tranquil now she has adopted a precautionary measure rendered necessary by the gravity of the new situation,” declares a semiofficial statement, pointing out that those annoyed by the conclusion of the treaty should seek the causes which brought the two countries together.— Times.