SOVIET RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 6

SOVIET RUSSIA

OFFER TO POWERS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF OZARIST DEBTS. \ * CONDITIONAL ON RECOGNITION. Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 31, 8,10 p.m.) LONDON, October 29. The Soviet Government has renewed the offer to recognise the State loan obligations of the Czarist Government prior to 1914, provided the Powers conclude a definite peace treaty and recognise the Soviet, which proposes to 00.1 l an immediate conference to discuss all questions connected with a settlement. I THE FAMINE IS IT SO BLACK AS PAINTED? MARCH ON MOSCOW DENIED. LONDON, October 29. The “Sunday Express” states that the harrowing story that 30,000 starving refugees are marching on Moscow is a myth. The famine is not more severe than usual. In certain districts undoubtedly there is some privation, but the tragedy is not to such an extent that the authorities are unable to cope with it. •‘HOSTILE TO RUSSIA” PROTEST AGAINST ACTION BY BRITAIN. COPENHAGEN, October 30. The “Politiken’s” correspondent at Riga states that M. Tchitcherin has sent a Note to Britain protesting against English - warships at Vladivostock landing officers and men belonging, to Wrangel’s old army, and stating that he regarded’ the action as hostile to Russia and the Fax-Eastern Republic.