RUSSIA
TRADE WITH BRITAIN MANUFACTURED GOODS AND RAW .MATERIALS NEEDED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Reuter's Telegram.^ (Received October 8, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. M. Krassia lias sent a letter to Mr Lloyd George detailing at great length Russia’s requirements in manufactured" goods and raw materials, and urging the speediest completion of the trade agreement. He points out that vast orders for locomotives and other railway materials could be placed in Britain, also orders for engineering machinery, tools, motor lorries, electrical appliances, chemicals, medical supplies, and textiles. Apparently the Bolshevik efforts to finance the gold operation at Reval failed. The Soviet no longer proposes to pay in gold, .but promises to produce goods, the gold being merely deposited at RevaTas a security for a loan from English banks, and only in the event of goods not being forthcoming in the year could gold at Reval be employed. This arrangement is not favoured by English financiers.
REPLY TO BRITISH NOTE,
NOT CONSIDERED SATISFACTORY. Australian and N.2i. Cable Association. (Received October 8, 8 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. The Bolshevik reply to the British Note is not, wholly satisfactory, though it offers to release British subjects upon conditions. Scarcely any mention is mad© regarding ceasing propaganda in Britain and Asia. Britain, therefore, is sending another Note requiring a definite answer with a time limit. BOLSHEVIKS RETREAT POLISH-LTTHUANIAN OPERATIONS CEASE. Reuter’s Telegram. (Received October 8, 10.60 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. A Polish official message states that the Bolsheviks are retreating on the entire front. The hostilities on the Lithuanian front from east of the Prussian front to Monstelliszki have been ordered to cease in accordance with the League of Nations’ proposals. THE PEACE TERMS. NEW POLISH CORRIDOR. ' LONDON, October 7. Under the Russo-Polish peace terms, Poland secures a new “corridor,” separating Lithuania from Russia, and also direct railway connection for the Lettish ports. ‘
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10716, 9 October 1920, Page 7
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