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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1925, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAP'.B AHHOOIATIO! POLISH CONCERN. (Received this <1 ;iv at 10 .25 a.in.) Vi'A.RSAAV, .Muv :i. There is great concern in Roland i regard In 1 lie oilnstropho to the Get man train passing through (.lie I’olisi corridor. Tin* general opinion is tin; 1 lit 1 object of 11 ir* pnrpi'l raters uas i( discredit Roland !»v creating I lie im prc'.ssion llial Germany eaiinoi safei; exorcise the. right of transit throng' the corridor. It is feared l lermnn;. will use the incident as an argument for the idxililion of the corridor. It istated that several similar, i.iii siiialh i incidents recenty oieurrcd in «!ift*t<■ m , parts of Roland. SOVI KT (TINCKSSIDXB. MOSCOW. May The areas covered In i ena gold concession an 1 the mining districts of Altai Zyrianoiisk. Zoneiiiogor.sk and Irtish, capper and iron enterprises in Sissersk and l.ovkinsk districts. The I rill I .ena Goldfields’ districts are excluded from the Altai eonresdons because the Soviet decided it to he the principal centre of development of the nation’s lead and zinc industry. RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION. WARSAW. May :s. Government will suhmii ii> the I’u - sian Congress of Soviets opening on Hth. May. certain amendments and additions to the Russian Constitution, including articles grunting rights of the Soviet to foreign citizens, and appoint .stock companies to apply private capital to the development of economic resources of Russia. •SOVIET ORDERS. 'Received this day at 8.-VI a.m.)

MOSCOW, .May Following on the election of I lindenburg a special conference of the .Moscow Communist. International decided to appeal to the Socialists of all parties to join in eomliat against the capitalist and monarchist reaction the all countries; also to increase their propaganda, especially in Germany where it is helieved a class war can advantageously he started. SOVIKT AND FOREIGN CARIIAb. .Received tins day at 8.30 a.in.) .■MOSCOW. May .‘I. Representatives of the Soviet Lena Goldfields Company has signed a draft agreement for a concessionary oxploitation bv a- company to he called the I.ena (told Knterprise of a million and a half acres of gold, silver, copper and y - lead hearing areas in the I.ena-Altar-Kissersk regions of Siberia. It, is understood that imported New York banking and mining interests have eonsiderahle partieijiation in the operations of the company which embrace the interests of a number of companies which before the war operated the mines covered I> v the present concession. Sis per cent of the total production will he payable to the Soviet. The Company's technical staff will be largely Anglo-Aniericans.