RUSSIA AND BRITAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14772, 11 October 1921, Page 7

RUSSIA AND BRITAIN

REPLY TO BRITISH CHARGES. BASED ON IMAGINARY FACTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, October 8. Litvinoff lias replied to Hie British note, which protested against Bolshevik intrigues against the British interests in Asia. He declared that the charges are based on imaginary facts and false information obtained from dubious sources. Litvinoff says that all Hie reports and utterances quoted in the British Note were invented, forged or falsified, ami Hie British Foreign Office had been misled by a gang of professional forgers and swindlers. He claims that since the conclusion of the Anglo-Hussian agreement, the Soviet had no dealings with the Indian revolutionaries, the Soviet representatives in Asia being strictly enjoined to refrain from anti-British propaganda. Litvinoff complains that the attitude of the British Government has lately been unfriendly to Russia, and adds that when Britain shows a readiness |o adjust the differences in a business- , like way she will find a ready response from (he Soviet.