SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

SOVIET’S SECOND MOVE. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.) LONDON, January 12. Moscow messages report that the Soviet’s second note to Poland expresses satisfaction at the Polish Government’s readiness in principal to accept the Soviet proposal. Referring to the statement in the Polish note, regarding the desirability of inviting other eastern European States to participate in a protocol, the Soviet vote of December 24, made perfectly clear that any State might join the protocol. Regarding Lithuania, the Soviet says only recent Polish-Lithuanin relations aroused serious feats for the fate of European peace, and Poland herself requested the League of Nations to discontinue the State of war between herself and Lithuania. Therefore the Government believed that Poland would welcome its invitation to Lithuania to join the protocol. The Soviet Government’s aim was to bring about as speedily ns possible the operation of the Kellogg Pact, even if only between a number of States. The Soviet believed that the hope expressed by Poland for clarification in the near future of the attitude of the fifteen States which signed, but not ratified the Kellogg Pact, ought not to have prevented Poland from accepting the Soviet proposal and signing the proposed protocol. It would have, a great moral effect, and Soviet Polish relations would be of greater importance to peace if for one reason or another the ratification of the Kellogg Pact by all the other fifteen signatories should be delayed for a considerable time.