RED INCUBUS

Northern Advocate, 17 September 1927, Page 9

RED INCUBUS

MUST BE SHAKEN OFF TRENCH RUPTURE ADVISED. FOLLOWING BRITAIN’S LEAD. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 16. A communication from Paris says that ex-president Milleraud, who is contesting a senatorial by-election at Orne, opened his campaign by strongly attacking the 'Communists. He described the Soviet Embassy at Paris as the headquarters of revolution, and demanded that the Government should eject the Soviet Ambassador, AI. Radowsky, and recall the French Ambassador from Moscow". Only such a rupture could defeat Communism; otherwise France would be the dupe of Moscow", which w T ould be happy to escape the difficulty by replacing M. Rakow r sky with another Communist. The Government, after its declaration that Communism w"as an enemy, must act determinedly. The correspondent of the "Daily News” at Moscow" says the Soviet is alarmed by the prospects of a break w’ith France, following on the break wdth Britain.

M. Litvinoff, interviewed by the British United Press Agency at Moscow', declared; "The instigators of the anti-Soviet campaign in France must be regarded as the instigators of a world conflagration. Only naive or conscious tricksters believe that the campaign is directed against M. Rakowsky. It is a mere pretext for reactionaries to disrupt the debt settlement. Negotiation on this question was solved recently to the satisfaction of both parties through a scheme for the payment of 60,000,000 gold francs yearly by the Soviet for the benefit of the holders of worthless Russian paper. The scheme includes credits for Soviet orders to French factories. It is not mere chance that the campaign against the Soviet began in France two days after the settlement was reached. There can be no question of any agreement regarding claims for payments if diplomatic relations are made worse or ruptured. It is clear that the break between Britain and Russia was. a merciless threat to peace. A break between France and Russia would increase the danger.” —A.N.Z.

TRADE WITH ARABIA. CUTTING OUT THE EMPIRE. (Received .10 a.m.) LONDON, September 1,6. The Riga correspondent of the “Times” says that the Soviet has published an account of the Arabian expedition, claiming to have reduced the price of sugar by £3 a ton, keeping out Indian sugar, also that they have similarly operated with flour. The correspondent says while the Soviet was. trading with Arabia there was an acute shortage of sugar throughout Russia, the authorities pacifying sugar queues,with the announcement that 3000 tons of foreign sugar had arrived at Leningrad and three other cargoes were expected. —Times.