MOSCOW CONDITIONS
TRADE DELEGATE’S VIEW
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this dav at 9. a.m.) 1 LONDON, April 11. " Moscow is a dilapidated city, full of paradoxes, declares Barrington Hooper, the first member of the Trade Delegation to return to London. The city looks poverty stricken. Tlie- roads are full of pot boles and the buildings are in a shocking state of disrepair. Everything in the shops is shoddy. “ I never, once saw a woman wearing a decent y pair of silk stockings. The hotels are so bad that some are falling to pieces, vet I saw luxury unexcelled ill Europe at a banquet in our honour. The food and wines were the choicest in Europe. Russia sorely needs plant and machinery and is most anxious to arrange fop it. In my opinion the banks should explore the situation”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1929, Page 4
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