SOVIET RUSSIA
BUYING WARSHIPS. WILL JAPAN SUPPLY THE NEED? (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MOSCOW, June 21. Trotsky, addressing the Naval Academy, said Russia had negotiated with an Asiatic Island State with a view to purchasing several of the most modern warships to increase her naval strength in the Far East. Previous inspired reports declared that Russia suggested that Japan should give her warships which Japan was obliged to scrap under the Washington Treaty as compensation for Northern Saghalien. ROYAL MINT BUSY.. MAKING SOVIET COINS. LONDON, June 22. The Sunday Times states that following on Government authorisation the Royd Mint of London has the manufacture of 40,060,000 silver hah roubles for the Soviet Government. The con is worth .• bout a shilling.
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Southland Times, Issue 19278, 24 June 1924, Page 5
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