BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 13

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS. SPECIAL COMMITTEE SET lIP. (British Official Wireless.! (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, October 2. (Received Oct. 3, at 5.5 p.m.) The British and Russian members of the Anglo-Soviet Debts and Claims Committee were received by the Foreign Secretary (Mr Arthur Henderson) at the Foreign Office to-day. The Russian delegation were introduced by the Soviet Ambassador (M. Sokolniov), and afterwards the delegations withdrew in order to make arrangements for the date and place of future meetings, A Debts and Claims Committee was provided for in the protocol, which was signed on October 3 of last year. According to the terms of the protocol a committee of experts was to meet in order to inquire into the whole question of claims and counterclaims, in a necessary preliminary to a llnal settlement of the question, which is eventually to be negotiated between the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Soviet Ambassador in. London. The.* committee will meet again shortly to set up subcommittees for the purpose of dealing with details of the questions under discussion.