DILAPIDATED CITY
.MOSC&W TO-DAY.
“RUSSIA SORELY NEEDS MACHINERY.
BRITISH DELEGATE’S IMPRESSIONS.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) \ Received April 12, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, April 11. “Moscow is a dilapidated city full of paradoxes,” declares Mr Barrington Hooper, the first member of the British Trade. Delegation to return to London. “The city looks poverty-stricken; the roads are full of potholes; the buildings are in a shocking state of disrepair. “Everything in the shops is shoddy. I never once saw a woman wearing a decent pair of silk stockings. The hotels are bad; some of them are falling to pieces, yet I saw luxury unexcelled in Europe at a banquet tendered in our honour. The food and the wines were the. choicest in Europe. “Russia sorely needs plant and machinery, and is most anxious to arrange for it. In my opinion the banks should explore the situation.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 113, 12 April 1929, Page 7
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