ANGLO-SOVIET RELATIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 8

ANGLO-SOVIET RELATIONS

DANGER OF A SPLIT BREAK OF RELATIONS FEARED (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (N.Z., and A.P.A., and Sun.) (Received May 2b, noon.) LONDON, May 22. The Anglo-llussian Parliamentary Committee, of which Mr. Purehall lias issued a manifesto emphasising the serious consequences which may result from a diplomatic rupture with Russia, draws attention to liu- Russian Note’s “commendable spirit of responsibility and restraint, which opens wide the door to ail honorable settlement.” for which the manifesto appeals, and says men and women, irrespective of party, must oppose to the utmost. the reckless proposals tho Government contemplates, adding “An honorable settlement with Russia can be easily effected if the Government, so desires.” The Weekly Despatch says M. Rosengolz is pessimistic, fearing the breaking off of relations with Russia. Nevertheless lie hopes Anglo-Russian trading will be permitted, but the Bank of England’s sale of £2,500,000 worth of bar gold is believed to be due to the transference of Arms Ltd. gold balances lo American banks. II is understood that Russians privately asserted to l.ahorites that no missing documents were found in the raid, and this resulted in Commoners entering the debate with greater assurance than they formerly felt. Mr. J. L. Gavin, in an article in the Observer, urges that a Bolshevist debacle in China, may be tho death-blow to Moscow extremists, enabling Stalin and his followers finally to obtain the upper hand and to suppress the export of Bolshevism, lie hopes the Prime • Minister. Mr. .Stanley Baldwin, and Sir Austen Chamberlain, will persuade Cabinet. to give Russia aunt her chance unless the new arguments for a rupture prove unanswerable. BRITISH TRADE BOYCOTT (Tho Times.) The Times' Riga correspondent reports that the Trade Commissar, M. Mikoyan, has sent an urgent telegram to I lie Soviet Trade Delegations and its agents abroad to carrv out tho resolution to boycott Britain and trade as far as possible elsewhere. •• We don’t want representatives of Moscow murderers in the free land of Bril,a in," declared Sir Alfred Mood in a speech at Oxtord. ' We. must bo liberated fu.m the Moscow nightmare, which lias choked us far too long.