A DILAPIDATED CITY FULL OF PARADOXES
Moscow To-day LUXURY UNEXCELLED AT DELEGATION FEAST MACHINERY URGENT NEED. United Press Association —By Eleetri* Telegraph —Copyright. LONDON, April 11. “Moscow is a dilapidated city full of paradoxes,” declared Mr. Barrington Hooper, the first member of tho British Trade Delegation to return to London.
“The city looks poverty-stricken; tbe 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 ihotels arc 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 tho situation.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6884, 13 April 1929, Page 10
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146A DILAPIDATED CITY FULL OF PARADOXES Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6884, 13 April 1929, Page 10
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