SOVIET CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 9

SOVIET CONGRESS

M. Molotov’s Warning to Japan RUSSIA WANTS PEACE Industrial Recovery of Britain Praised By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 29. 7.20 p.m.) Moscow, January 28. M. Stalin, on appearing on the-plat-form at the Kremlin at the opening of the seventh congress of Russian Soviets, was cheered for five minutes by 2000 delegates. M. Molotov, president of the Council of People’s Commissars, who presided, reviewed events since the congress of 1931. and paid tribute to Britain for greater signs of industrial improvement than elsewhere, and affirmed the Soviet’s desire for peace. lie declared that no country bordering Russia need be uneasy. He warned Japan that Russia had shown extraordinary patience in yielding in economic disputes, but had not overlooked the aggressiveness of influential Japanese, who advocated the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and were now advocating the seizure of Russia’s maritime provinces. BIG RUSSIAN ORDERS £1,000,000 Worth of British Machinery PAYMENT TO BE IN CASH Londou, January 28. Arcos (the Russian Trade Association) is placing orders for over £1,000,000 cash for the purchase of British machinery, and has also largely purchased re-export goods mainly from the Dominions. The orders will be spread over 12 months. The biggest is £500,000 worth of jjailwajj wheels and axles, requiring 30,000 tons of British steel. Others include the equipment for Soviet paper factories, 25.000 tons of steel, and large quantities of wool. The orders will provide much employment in Manchester, Birmingham. Sheffield and Scotland.