A PROFITABLE DEAL
LABOUR OLIVER TWIST. (Received 12.41 p.m.) LONDON, February 16. A profitable British deal in Russia was mentioned by Mr. Locker-Lampson in moving a supplementary estimate for the Office of Works, He said a mission was sent to Leningrad and Moscow to try to recover furniture belonging to the British Government and seized by the Soviet during the revolution. The mission cost £3OO and the recovered effects were worth £12,000. Mr. George ;• Lansbury (Labour), moved reduction of the vote as a protest against the foolhardy policy of removing furniture from Petrograd, The motion was rejected and the vote carried.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 17 February 1926, Page 8
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