BRITAIN & RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7

BRITAIN & RUSSIA

DRAFT AGREEMENT • PREPARED

RECOGNITION OP PORTION

OF DEBTS

PROPAGANDA TO CEASE

Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrighi London, September 29,

I According to'"The Times," Krassin's trade negotiations ■ tire nearing completion, but the draft agreement is kept ■sirrel:. \ oily mlitor discloses (hot it does not provide for recognition of all the Russian debts, only some of them. The agreement contemplates the shipment ot a certain amount of gold' to London, u 2i i" B unn >ntee that it will not be attached by other claimants* It is predicted that authoritative quarters ,in the city, .will take steps to prevent the British Government conniving at a partial repudiation of the debt.. The writer under? 6tands* that Cabinet is divided oil the question..

The 'Daily Mail" understands that the agreement provides for the release of prisoners, the cessation of propaganda, and a mutual, undertaking- against bos* '}?? The Soviet recognises the Tsarist debts for goods supplied and services rendered. A separate treaty will be made for the, other debts. The 'Mail" expects that negotiations will soon open for a formal peace.-Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POLISH TERMS" TO BE ACCEPTED INSTRUCTIONS TO BOLSHEVIK PEACE DELEGATION. . Warsaw, September 30. It is, reliably stated that Me, head of the Bolshevik Peace Delegation, has received instructions -to accept all the Polish terms, however harsh, excepting any disbanding of tli® Red armies.—Ecu* ter. PROGRESS"OFTHE FIGHTING IMPORTANT POLISH CAPTURES. . , 'London l , September 30. A Polish communique states: We captured Li da and Pinsk, with four thouprisoners, including" 'a divisional el'"" of staff and two hundred Soviet offici u.v Five hundred railway wagons, two hundred and fifty machine-guns, and an enormous amount of war material were seized. The enemy is retreating in • panic— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DEPLORABLE TRANSPORT CONDITIONS Washington, September 30. The State Department has been advised .that, owing to . the 'deplorable transportation conditions in Russia, the Bolsheviks have set apart a week for the repair of transport material.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.