RUSSIA AND BRITAIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1924, Page 2

RUSSIA AND BRITAIN.

ICSTUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RUSSIAN TREATY SIGNED. ■ LONDON, Aug. 8. The A agio-Russian Treaty was signed this evening by Mr Ramsay MacDonald and Mr'Ponsonby for Britain, and byMessrs Raknvskv, Sehnoidemans, Joffre, Tomskv. and Radchenko for Russia. LONDON. Aug. it. The “Daily Chronicle” criticising the preamble of the Anglo-Russian Treaty, asks why the Dominions were not consulted regarding the negotiations. If there were no longer a common foreign policy, for the British Empire, in what sense could the Empire he said to continue to exist. OMISSION OF KING’S NAME. LONDON. Aug. 8. The “Evening Standard" says:—“lt transpires that the* omission of the King's name from the Anglo-Soviet Treaty is not due to any desire to placate the Bolsheviks' susceptibilities, hut- is the result of the Foreign Oflic"* making legal inquiries upon a difficulty arising from the fact that there is no formal ltcod of Russia corresponding to a King. Therefore, the Treaty could not he properly balanced if it were preambled as being between the King and the Union of Russian Soviets and so it was made a document between the two governments. LONDON. Aug. 0.

City c irc les are amazed at the terms c.f the Russian agreement. There is an influential body of opinion that the Stock Exchange should veto dealings in tlu* Russian loan, on tlie grounds that Russia’s refusal to honour debt hinds that were outside British ownership on March Kith. 1921. is tantamount to discrimination.