SOVIET RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

WITHDRAWAL OF WAR-TIME TRADE RESTRICTIONS. .

STAND OF UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT

(ByTeleg.rg-'.ph.-X* bs AsßOoiatiun-OopyriKfttj Washington, March .10.. It is understood that the fU.ito Department will probabjy propd»e to the Supremo .-.Council the withdrawal of the-war-time restrictions upon trading between- the. Allies and- Soviet, Russia'; I American exporters. -"vyill -be-.allowed to trade with ..the.-.Soviet .Government on the understanding that they will do so at their own risk, and-that the State will not help them in. the ertnt. of complications. This provision will bo stipulated because the united Stales doss not desire to have any dealings with Soviet governments—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RESUMPTION OF ■ 'COMMERCE WITH ~. . JAPAN. • ... . Honolulu; March '9'.':, According to a dispatch from'Tokio, the Japanese Foreign Office has intimated, an early resumption of commercial relii-' tions with the Soviet, preliminary to' a formal recognition of it as the do facto Government of Russia — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. - '■• ' i .commissioTof INQUIRY .•' TO'BE, APPOINTED' BY. LEAGUE council. lltfrch 12, 7.30 p.tn.) , ' London, March .11, .. A meeting of the .Council of the tongue of'Nations,fto.be,held iiy.Parjs on March: 12 will appoint a Commission of Inquiry,, which will. proceed to Russia- early, : 'in A pril.—lmperial : News , 'Serrico. vladivostoOministration RECOGNISED BY SOVIET. (ltec. March 12, 5.5 p.m.) , Vladivostok, March 7. The chairman of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee, has telegraphed from' Irkutsk llwt the Soviet Administration recognises the Vladivostok Administration, and authorises- it. to not in an all-Russian capacity.—Router.'.

FIGHTING IN THE SOUTH / • ATTEMPT .TO BREAK DENIKIN'S '. ; . CENTRE FAILS. '(R-ec. March 12, ; 7.30-p.m.) London, March' 11." . Denikin has driven fa'ck the Bolsheviks"' who were- attempting •'to break his centre,, but'' Was compelled,'to withdraw' his'.left-; >Tri(r eighty' miles south of Rostov, while on ,:liis "right wing' the Bolshevists ' ad--' vnlioed' to withm'twenty'- miles of the 'all'] important Rostov-Ge-trov railway.—lmperial; News Service/ .' . .; . WHITE .RUSSIAN TROOPS / / APPROACHING. FINNISH EEpNTip. 1 " Copenhagen, March-7-. Reports from Hekingfors state that General Skobeltsin, comriinndiiig -the • White 'Russian troops; in Marmansk, is approaching the Finnish ifrontiei with a large force after.cutting- through: the Bolslftvik lines.— Cable; Assm