NO ORDERS FROM RUSSIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 7

NO ORDERS FROM RUSSIA

BRADFORD PERTURBED Home Secretary Issues Statement on Anglo-Soviet Trade QUESTION MAY BE REVIEWED (By Telegraph—Per Pres; Assn.—Copyright.) Received Nov. 14, 8.20 p.m. (The Times) LONDON, Nov. 13. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, in a letter to the Bradford Chamber of Commerce in reply to representations regarding Anglo-Russian relations especially the effect on the wool and textile industry, emphasizes that the Government is anxious to foster AngloRussian trade, and docs not desire to interfere with. British firms trading with Russia. Consequently the Government agrees to the concession that a Soviet employer joining a Russian trading association may visit Britain, at first for six months, with, the possibility of an extension which would normally be granted subject to his behaviour and the volume of trade done. Sir William Joynson-Hicks adds a statement that the Soviet has not placed new orders in Britain in the last few months. “This is most disquieting, as the Arcos Company and members of other Russian organisations were admitted for the purposes of trade,” he says. “If trade does not result, it will be impossible to justify a continued stay of the Russians. If stagnation such as you describe endures for any period, the whole question may be reviewed."