SOVIET RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1923, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA

AUSTRAL!\N AND NCAULK ASSOCIATION. WARTIME SEIZE RES. MOSCOW, April 20. M. Lithinoff and M. Ramzan signed an agreement tor an addition to the Rapallo Treaty under which pierehant ships seized at sea during the war shall remain in the hands of the present owners. BRITAIN AND SOY I FT. LONDON. April 27>. Mr -McNeill replying to Viscount ('iirzc,i in the House of Commons, said that a series of acts committed by the Soviet in which British subjects were victims had excited ] mi’oiuid indignation in the (loverninei.il and the country. Rapt r< would hr; laid before the House, testifying t> the conditions, which demanded and were receiving, earnest attention. It was proposed to address a serious caminunication to the Soviet. Meantime our representative in Moscow would not cease his efforts in connection with the seizure of the British trawler which had been ahull; unjustifiable. MANUFACT ER ES 11A CKAYA HI). MOSCOW, April 21k M. R.vkcff, President of the Economic Council, M. Bogdanoff. and other members of the Labour and Defence Council of Russia, reported at tho Communist Congress that the condition of the manufacturing industries, as well as production, is calamitous. The State is unable to support even the most vital industries and the outlook' for the coming half year is desperate.