FOREIGN OFFICE NOT CONSULTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 9

FOREIGN OFFICE NOT CONSULTED

| r is believed that the police raid on Arcos, Limited, and tfa* -» . Russian Trade Delegation Building in London was prompted by the disappearance of important naval documents which are believed to have been stolen.. . The incident has excited feverish comment in political and diplomatic circles, and it is believed may bring about an open rupture which the Foreign Office hoped to avoid. It is said that the Home Office acted on its own without consulting the Foreign Office on the diplomatic effects of the raid.

Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. The “Daily Sketch” says there are strong indications that documents of supreme naval importance to Britain were the main object of the search of Arcos, Ltd., and the Russian Trade Delegation Building. A large proportion of the information on which the police acted emanated from the recent raids on Soviet centres in Paris which has become the chief centre of anti-Bolshevik activity by the White Russians. A strict watch is now maintained at the British naval dockyards to which detectives have been despatched, especially to Chatham and Devonport. The “Sketch” is also informed that the searches discovered correspondence implicating certain members if the House of Commons. A Moscow message says that 40,000 people demonstrated in front of the British Mission building as a protest against the Arcos raid.—A. and N.Z.