BOLSHEVIKS ALARMED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 11

BOLSHEVIKS ALARMED.

BREAK NOT ' DESIRED.

THREAT TO WORLD PEACE. FOREIGN COMMISSAR'S VIEW. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received September 16, 8.20 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Sept. 16. The Moscow correspondent of the British United Press Association indicates that the Soviet Government is alarmed at the prospect of a break in Russia's relations with France, following upon the rupture with Britain. The deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Litvinoff, in an interview, said the instigators of the anti-Soviet campaign in France must be regarded as instigators of a world conflagration. " Only naive or conscious tricksters believe the campaign is directed against Rakowsky,'* said Litvinoff. "It is a mere pretext of the reactionaries to disrupt the debt-settlement negotiation. This question was solved recently to the satisfaction of Russia and France through a scheme for the payment of 60,000,000 gold francs a year by the Soviet for the benefit of the holders of worthless Russian paper money. The scheme includes credits for Russian orders to French factories. "It is not a mere chance campaign against the Soviet. It began in France two days' after the debt settlement had been reached. There can be no question of any agreement regarding claims or payments if diplomatic relations between the two countries become worse or are ruptured. It is clear that the break between Britain and Russia was a merciless threat- to world peace. A break between France and Russia would increase that danger."