SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1923, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ERROR OF THEIR WAYS. LONDON, May 12. The “Dailv Express” Moscow correspondent says that the- Soviet is no more anxious than the Rritain for a rupture. There is still a possibility that this may he averted and that the Soviet having learned the error of their ways will not cast aside the fruits of the trade agreement which has been moie material for Russia than Britain. Mr Hodgson is hopeful of finding a via media. ANG LO-RUSST A N R ELAT lONS. LONDON, May 11. A joint meeting of representatives of the Trade Unions Congress, National Labour Party and Parliamentary Party unanimously passed a resolution that the note to Russia was calculated to revive attacks of the white guards on the Russian Government and a renewal of a report to force, instead of negotiations, and asks that the inatters in dispute he referred to an international tribunal, and strongly protests against the rupture of AngloRussian relations.

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. LONDON, May 12. The “Daily Express’s” Moscow correspondent says that the Soviet Government is sending M. Krassin, foreign Trade Commissary, to England. He and two secretaries leave Moscow by aeroplane on Saturday for Berlin and London. He has been granted an English passport, and thus comes on an errand with the approval of the British Government. He will either negotiate a settlement or close down the London Trade Mission. A STOCKHOLM STORY. STOCKHOLM, May 12 There has lately been an epidemic of suicides in Russia. In Moscow alone in one day (April 20) there were 04 suicides registered ; in Petrograd, 28; in Odessa, 19; and in Kharlov nine. Most of the eases were due to starvation. The number has increased during the new economic policy, as the starving see the mad luxury of the Commissaries who are newly rich. Some idealists in the Communist Party also committed suicide, being unable to stand the moral and spiritual degradation of their party.