SOVIET EMBARGO

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 5

SOVIET EMBARGO

KREMLIN sobered

RUSSIAN LOAN DEFAULTED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Opyright.)

LONDON, April 20

Russia, with 150 m'illion s sterling, heads the list of defaulters according to the annual report of Foreign Band hot tars’ Corporation, showing the .total affected was 350 millions, spread over 120 loans. The “Tini t s” Riga correspondent says that the British embargo has sobered the Ivremlin, as it did not imagine' that Britain would go to such lengths f o r tb c sake of ‘‘iself-confeesed wreckers” when Russia had satisfied British dignity by releasing others. The greatest blow is the cessation of diplomatic immunity, which had been regarded as one of the Soviet’s greatest diplomatic .accomplishments, which /vloscow did not realise would result j from the lapse of the trade agreement I

The National Joint Council of Labour. representing Parliamentarians and the Trades Union Congress, telegraphed to Moscow urging the immediate .release of-- Thornton and MacDonald, in the interests of A»-glo-Rusaran friendship,

They dso issued a statement-con-demning the proposed British embargo.

“RUSSIA HAS BEEN BULLIED.’

OPINION OF MR -LANSBURY

LONDON, April 21

“Russia has not been treated as a sovereign state, 'but has been bullied into subjection,” declared Mr George Lansbury (Le:|der of the Parliamentary Labour Party), when speaking inpet ford. “I hope that -the Working Class -(Soviet Government will rise superior to the British C a pibaTist Government, ;and will send the men home, thus demonstrating that they -are not seeking revenge.”

BRITISH ENGINEERS DEPART MOSCOW, April 21

Nordwell to-day left Moscow, accomp.inied by his Russian wife. They were farewelled by th,g British Embassy staff and many foreign journalists.

The other British engineers have de pared with Nordwell,

RUSSIAN GIRL IN NEW ZEALAND

PASSPORT TROUBLE WITH SOVIET

Wellington, April 21

A twelve year old Russian child, Gilill-a Bogatir‘>ff) who Wfl6 fold'd ’in -Strensk, Siberia, through the efforts 0 f the. -Red Cross, after having lent tr.'i'jc of since she was ft I°"’ months old, is finding difficulty in returning to her fa-ni'ily, as trouble is -being raised by tbc Soviet on the question of a passport. Soon after the child was found, the Red Cress authorities considered the child would be able to travel with .a British passport, which could be obtained at a small cost, but now, it is stated, the (Soviet consider,s her e, Ru s sian (Subject. The price for a Russian passport is three hundred dollars, which is absolutely prohibitive for thg, K* so Cross. The. High Coninrssioner and tli 0 - Home -authorities have been -approached, but, s o far, no arrangements have) been -made.