SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1923, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

AUSTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CABI,F. ASSOCIATION. BRITAIN AND SOVIET. LONDON, May 0. Lord Cumin, simultaneously with the dispatch of Ids note to Russia, instructed Hodgson, the British agent at Moscow, to return to England with tho

whole Mission if the Soviet Government iloes not reply by next Thursday. If the reply is received within that period and is dearly unsatisfactory the -Mission must leave Russia immediately. The ‘‘■Morning Post" says that in well-informed quarters in London there I is an impression that the Note may provoke a eoniliet between the extremists, of whom Tchitchcriu is leader, and the moderates. The “Daily Telegraph” states that the Soviet delegation in London does not expeet compliance, and there are signs that they are making preparations for departure; that, although the Bolsheviks know they have been watch-

ed. they are surprised at the accuracy of the Government’s information; and that it is clear that Lord Cur,mu has not given out one tithe of the precise information available regarding tho Bolshevik activities in England. RUSSIAN MOVE. (Recoived this day at 10.-Id a.m.) COPENHAGEN, May 10. At the last meeting of the Revolutionary War Council, Trotsky declared France had loaned Poland four hundred million francs with which Poland had- increased the manufacture of armaments and strengthened her artillery. Russia had therefore been forced" to do likewise. Also, two classes of reserves would he called up during the coming summer.