THE SOVIET TREATY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19250, 14 August 1924, Page 7

THE SOVIET TREATY

EXULTATION IN RUSSIA.

MR MACDONALD'S HAND FORCED

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, August 12. The Riga correspondent of The Times says; “The extremist Labour group forced Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s hand, and compelled him to sign the Anglo-Soviet treaties, according to the official Soviet newspaper Biednota, which relates that after the breakdown of the negotiations the Labour Group hurriedly met and saw Air A. Pnnsonby (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), demanding that the British Government should concede the Soviet’s demands regarding compensation for losses. The Cabinet then invited M. Rakovsky to resume the negotiations. “Tlie Biednota gives the credit to M. Rakovsky, asserting that he. spurred the Labour group into action. The Biednota attaches the utmost importance to the diplomatic inviolability of tho Soviet trade representatives, presumably referring to the non-commercial activities that such agents pursue in foreign countries. “Tho Foreign Countries’ Commissars' Council in a communique exultantly explains that tho British creditors will not receive Russian money, but merely a portion of their own money in the shape of a British loan, the balance of which will be available to revive Russian trade.”— Tho Times.

RUSSIA AND THE LEAGUE. LONDON, August 13. (Received August 13, at 7.50 p.rn.) The Daily Herald states that at the final meeting of the Anglo-Russian Conference, M. Rakovsky announced tho Soviet’s willingness to send an observer to the League of Nations Assembly if he were accorded full diplomatic privileges, and if Russia’s claims for compensation against Switzerland in connection with the Vorovskv murder are settled.—A. and N.Z. Cable.'