SOVIET AGREEMENT.
THANKFULLY RECEIVED. BUT WITH A WARNING. (Received 1.10 p.m.) MOSCOW, August 21. The Soviet unanimously thanked the delegation to London for its efforts in regard to the Anglo-Soviet agreement, and instructed the Government in future negotiations never to agree to terms which would place a new burden of taxation on the workers in Soviet Russia. M. Rakovsky in a speech contended that the agreement did not infringe the laws of the Soviet in regard to nationalisation and annulment of debts while Soviet Russia would only pay claims which it recognised as advantageous to itself or for which social justice demanded compensation. He predicted the ratification of the treaty, because otherwise property owners a»d bond-holders would get nothing.
M. Chicherin described the treaty as the basis for future relations with other countries. —A. and IST.Z.
A BRITISH VISITOR (Received 1.10 p.m.) MOSCOW, August 21. Miss Susan Lawrence, M.P., was ac : corded an ovation when greeted by the Moscow Soviet. On behalf of British Labour she said the agreement was weleomed enthusiastically. ~S.he urged the two' peoples to worl? closely together.—A. and. N.Z. , ■
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1924, Page 5
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