SABRE-RATTLING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19842, 17 May 1927, Page 7

SABRE-RATTLING

THE ARCOS RAID Soviet Organ Accuses Britain of "Rapacious Imperialism” SEARCH FOR NAVAL DOCUMENTS [By Telegrapa—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] (A.P.A.-Sun) MOSCOW, May 14. The newspapers continue indignantly to condemn the Arcos raid, which is termed a gross violation of the AngloSoviet agreements and elementary international relations. The Pravda declares that the Moorjgate Street provocation has been dei vised because the Peking provocation I failed, and is only one link in the policy of the adventures. Sabre-rat-tling may fatally affect international peace. It shows the difference between the rapacious policy of British Imperialism and the peaceful policy of the Soviet, which defends peace by all means in its power and desires to carry on trade, contrary to Britain preparing I for a rupture with the Soviet. I The Economichaskaia Jizu is of opinion that the raid confirms Britain’s i systematic activities for a blockade of the Soviet but she is powerless to induce • the Soviet to abandon its chosen path of economic co-existence in competition with the capitalistic world.

NAVAL SECRETS STRICT WATCH MAINTAINED SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF PAPERS (A. & N.Z.) LONDON - , May 15. The Sketch says: “There are strong indications that documents of supreme naval importance to Britain were the main object of the Arcos search. A large proportion of the information on which the police acted emanated from 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 Chatham and Dcvonport. ”

The Sketch is also informed that the searchers discovered correspondence implicating certain members of the House of Commons.

LOST ORDERS REQUEST FOR TRANSFER HOUSE OF COMMONS DISCUSSION 1 (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, May 15. , In consequence of the Arcos raid the J Moscow Council of Commerce and In- . dustry adopted a resolution requesting the Ministry of Commerce to transfer ’ £10,000,000 worth of orders from Britain to other countries. 1 ! Sir W. Joynson Hicks has a special conference with the police and Secret Service Corps to-morrow morning, which will examine the documents j found at Arcos. | Interviewed, he said: “I am satisIfied that the search has b' justified. Il shall make a statement in answer to questions in the House of Commons tomorrow. I cannot say whether I shall be able to disclose the nature of the discoveries. ’ ’ The Daily Express understands that Scotland yard found evidence of conspiracies. lists of red agents in Britain, names of agitators who received payments from Russia during the general strike, but no trace of the missing State documents.