SETTLEMENT SHOULD BE MADE WITH RUSSIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 13

SETTLEMENT SHOULD BE MADE WITH RUSSIA

STRONG MANIFESTO ISSUED DANGER OF DIPLOMATIC BREAK By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Sunday. M E N and women, irrespective of party, must oppose to the utmost the reckless proposals the Government contemplates taking. An honourable settlement with Russia can easily be effected if the Government so desires.” This is part of the manifesto which has been issued by the Anglo-Kussian Parliamentary Committee, of which Mr. A. A. Purcell is chairman. The manifesto states that serious consequences may result from a diplomatic rupture with Russia. It also draws attention to what it terms the

“commendable spirit of responsibility and restraint” characterising the Russian Notes about the raid, which it says open wide the door to an hon■ourable settlement.

“We do not want representatives of the Moscow murderers in the free land of Britain,” declared Sir Alfred Mond, Conservative M.P. for Carmarthen, in a speech at Oxford. “We must be liberated from the Moscow nightmare, whiefi has choked us far too long.” The “Weekly Dispatch” says the Russian Charge d’Affaires in London, Mr. Rosengoltz, is pessimistic. He fears the breaking off of relations between Britain and the Soviet. Nevertheless he says he hopes trading between the two countries will be permitted to continue.

However, the sale by the Bank of England of £2,500,000 worth of bar gold is believed to have been due to the transfer by Arcos, Ltd., of its gold balances to American banks. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” reports that the Trade Commissioner, Mr. Mikoyan, has sent an urgent telegram to the Soviet trade delegations and agents abroad to carry out the resolution recently passed by the People’s Commissars. This recommended that foreign trade operations should only be conducted with countries with which the Soviet had normal diplomatic relations, and where Soviet trade organisations were guaranteed against interruption.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.