MISSION TO RUSSIA.
FURNITURE RECOVERED. PROFITABLE BRITISH DEAL. (Received 5.5 p.m.) Reuter. LONDON. Feb. 16. A profitable British deal in Russia was mentioned by Mr. G. T. Locker-Lampson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in moving a supplementary estimate for the Office of Works. He said a mission was sent to Leningrad and Moscow to try to recover some furniture belonging to the British Government which was seized by the Soviet in the course of the revolution. The mission cost £3OO and it recovered effects worth £12,000. Mr. G. Lansbury, Labour INI. P. for Poplar, moved a reduction of the vote as a protest against v.-hat he termed the foolhardy policy of removing furniture from Leningrad. The motion was rejected and the vote was carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19255, 18 February 1926, Page 9
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