RUSSIAN ALLEGATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1932, Page 7

RUSSIAN ALLEGATIONS.

RECOGNISED AS INACCURATE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 13. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain R. A. Eden, to-dav informed the House of Commons of the sequel to the recent vigorous protest which the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, had made to the Soviet Government regarding allegations published in the newspaper Izvestia. Captain Eden said that the Soviet Ambassador had made an oral communication to the Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs to the effect that, while the Soviet Government only took responsibility for official communications in the Izvestia, it desired to state that with regard to this particular incident it did not entertain, and had not at any time entertained, the suspicions of the Foreign Secretary and of the Foreign Office, which were expressed in the article. On the contrary, it dissociated itself from such statements. The Ambassador later repeated this declaration, and added that he himself had communicated with the editor of the Izvestia, who had now replied that he had been misled by one of his correspondents, that he recognised the statements in question were inaccurate, and that ho wished to express his regret for having published them. In these circumstances the British Government regarded the matter as closed.