SOVIET PRODUCTS

Southland Times, Issue 21997, 22 April 1933, Page 5

SOVIET PRODUCTS

BRITAIN’S EMBARGO RUSSIAN DELEGATION RECALLED CONSULTATION IN MOSCOW (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 20. It is announced on behalf of the Russian trade delegation in London that M. Ozersky, head of the delegation, and his two assistants will proceed to Moscow on Monday for a consultation with the Soviet Commissariat on Foreign Trade. The Anglo-Russian trade agreement expired last Monday. The embargo on commodities, representing 80 . per cent, of Russian imports to Britain, was proclaimed yesterday, following the sentences on the British accused in the Moscow trial, and is due to take effect next Wednesday. The Russian counsel of Thornton and Macdonald, sentenced to two and three years respectively by the Soviet Court, intend lodging a petition for clemency with the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet. It is officially stated that there is no foundation for the suggestion that the Soviet warned the Government that the embargo would increase the difficulties of commuting the sentences. The National Joint Council of Labour, representing the members of Parliament and the Trades Union Congress, telegraphed Moscow urging the immediate release of Thornton and Macdonald in the interests of AngloRussian friendship. The council also issued a statement condemning the proposed British embargo. Russia, with £150,000,000, heads the list of defaulters, according to the annual report of the Foreign Bondholders’ Corporation, which shows the total affected to be £350,000,000 spread over 120 loans. EMBARGO DISREGARDED MOSCOW NEWSPAPERS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Moscow, April 20. The newspapers disregard the embargo and declare that the British agitation has been aimed solely at Soviet trade in order to fulfil the Ottawa agreements. SERIOUS FOR RUSSIA FRENCH VIEW OF EMBARGO. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, April 20. The Press gives prominence to the trial and embargo. The latter,. it is considered, will be more serious in its consequences for Russia than for Britain. RUSSIA BULLIED MR LANSBURY’S VIEWS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) London, April 21. “Russia has not been treated as a sovereign State, but has been bu’lied into subjection,” declared Mr George Lansbury, Leader of the Opposition, at Retford. “I hope the working class Soviet Government will be supeiior to the British capitalist Government and send the men home, demonstrating that they were not seeking revenge.” BRITISH ENGINEERS DEPARTURE FROM MOSCOW. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) Moscow, April 21. The British engineers have departed, Nordwall being accompanied by his wife. They were farewelled by the Embassy staff and many foreign journalists. DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY CESSATION A BLOW TO SOVIET. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) Riga, April 21. The embargo sobered the Kremlin as it did not imagine that Britain would go to such lengths for the sake of “self-confessed wreckers” when Russia had satisfied British dignity by releasing the others. The greatest blow is the cessation of diplomatic immunity, which was regarded as one of the Soviet’s greatest diplomatic accomplishments and which Moscow did not realize would result from the lapse of the trade agreement.