BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1927, Page 2

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] PARIS, A Larch 3. The British Opposition Leader’s support to Sir Austen Chamberlain’s note to the Soviet lias created a deep impression here. Several of the newspapers declare the crux of the question is the old Anglo-Russinn rivalry in the bar East, which is described by one writer as “ a struggle between a whale and an elephant, but the elephant has at present become an army of ants, burrow ing everywhere secretly, while tho whale is no longer able to summon the assistance of the Japanese dragon, owing to Britain’s'abandonment of the Japanese Alliance, in order to please the United States, though, lie adds, the necessity for an A nglo-Japanese alliance is becoming daily more plain.” The press does not expect that Britain will break off relations with Russia till the other European powers are prepared to follow her example. The impudent tone of the Soviet’s reply is considered to be due to the Bolshevik leaders’ desire to distract attention from flic unsatisfactory economic position of Russia. AIR BALDWIN’S YIEAY. LONDON. March 5. Mi- Baldwin, the Prime Minister, that there was danger from the alien speaking at Cambridge, emphasised propaganda, based on class hatred, that was growing up in England, principally from Russia. The Labourites, ho said, hv failing to explain, when Bolshevism first obtained power in Russia, what it really was, and by permitting their followers to believe that Bolshevism had been a Labour triumph that was comparable with what might happen iu Britain if Labour gained power. It is learned that the Soviet is hastening the conclusion of a non-

aggression Latvian pact on Latavia s own terms, aiming to strengthen Russo-Latvian relations, and correspondingly enfeebling its collection with the League of Nations.