DEALINGS WITH RUSSIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 7

DEALINGS WITH RUSSIA

ATTITUDE UNCHANGED HOSTILE PROPAGANDA CONTINUES HOUSE OF COMMONS DISCUSSION. [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn-—Copyright.] Received Feb. 15, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 14. In the House of Commons, Commander Locker-Lampson, replying to a question, said no communications had passed between the Soviet and the Foreign Office on the subject of China. Mr J. E. Davison (Labour): What is the date of the last protest made to tho Soviet in connection with their action in China? Commander Locker-Sampson: That really does not arise out of the question. He added that no communication whatever had taken place in connection with M. Krassin’s successor. There had been no change in the Russian situation since Sir Austen Chamberlain’s statement on the matter. Mr Davison: No change, even in view of what has happened in China? Commander Locker-Lampson: I did not say that. The official Soviet Press provides ample evidence of hostile propaganda against Britain without the necessity of the Foreign Secretary producing further evidence. Mr Ramsay MacDonald: If that is the case, the Foreign Secretary had occasion to complain. Has he done so? Commander Locker-Lampson: Certainly, in interviews with the Soviet representative. The trade agreement has been broken over and over again. Mr A. M. Samuel (Conservative) stated that Britain, in 1925, sold Russia £19,000,000 worth of goods, and £14,500,000 in 1926.