MISSIONS TO RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 5

MISSIONS TO RUSSIA

SCOPE OF INQUIRIES IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION WELCOMED (By Telegrj,ph--Pre!6 Associalion-CopyriEht London, March 111. M. Albert Thomas, Director of the Interuation.il Labour Office, in an interview, pointed out thnt the agenda for the meeting- of the governing body | in London next week included a proposal to send a Mission of Inquiry to Itussia and the appointment of an Internationa! Emigration Mission. In inference to the former, M. Thomas stated that a wireless message had been received to. the effect that Russia was prepared to allow the mission to inquire into questions of fact, but reserved to itself, the right to send similar missions into other countries. The mission being sent by! the League of Nations would make a general inquiry, while the International Labour Mission would be independent and would inquire into industrial and social conditions without concerning itself about political questions. This would he carried out by representatives of the employers, Labour leaders, and Government experts. In order to ensure co-ordi nation between the two inqniiies,. the International Labour Office was invited to nominate ono employer and one worker to. act on the General Mission.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. Moscow, March 18. Leo Kameneff, president of the Moscow Soviet, stated jn an interview: "The League of Nations has capitulated. It is created in the interests of the old Imperialism. We attach no particular importance to the Allied Commissions which are to visit Russia. Bona lide commissions from other countries desiring to make an impartial investigation will also be welcomed. Wo shall not arrange fetes, for the Allied commissions, but shall afford them facilities, to see everything. We ask the same right to send our commissions to other countries."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RE-ESTABLISHING - TRANSPORT Copenhagen, March 17. A wireless message from Moscow states, that the railwaymcn have agreed to work a twelve-hour day until transnort is re-established.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STRIKE ON SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Washington, March 18. The State Department learns from Harbin that General Horvarth has relinquished control of the Chinese East>rn railway zone, as the result of a strike of the railway workers.—Aus.-N.Z. !!able Assn. f fRADE WITH CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES WILL BE SANCTIONED BY JAPAN. (Rec. March 21, 5.5 p.m.) Tokio, March 17. It. is considered that the. Allies' trade xilicy will be facilitated by the deciion that the Japanese Siberian forces '-as the Czechs evacuate—will graduilly concentrate on the Manchurian mrder, endeavouring to avoid collision ritli Red troops. Japan will not reply o the Soviet peace overtures, but' wiil auction trading with Russian co-opera-ive societies.—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn.