RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3391, 21 January 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA.

a--——---o‘-""T AMERICANS QUIT SIBERIA.

JAPANESE BITTERLY CRITICISE.

Received 10.55 ;a.m.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.

The Japanese press is bitterly criticising the departure of American forces from Siberia, as a. bl'~eac‘h» of the Japanese-American 2igl'eement of 9th August, 1919. The "press: asserts that Japan will not Witlhdraw, but maintain her position in Eastern Siberia.

1 TRADE WITH RUSSIA. SCHEME INVOLVING MILLIONS. .TO COMMENCE IMMEDIA'i'EL'Y. BRITAIN ACTING ‘ALONE. i _ Rewceived 9.35 am. ‘ LOI}ID_O-N, Jan. 17. The Evening Standard stat;-;:s that the Overseas Trade Department has ~already completed. proposals to press forward a far-nzgaching scheme for pushing Russian trade, u-tilising ordinary trade channels. Though the Government backs the ,sc:he-me to the extlrnt of seventeen million sterling, mainly in the form of insurance» against c:gceptlion'sTtrade risks, it is officiaily .con,sidered that this scheme has two important advantages, firstly—it :~nables imme.diate economical export of goods to Russia _on a large scale, which can be put into operation forthlwith, because orgianiss3-.d on national, I not international lines, thus di.~:pellsEng iwith the necessity for Allied C9-cpcrm Jtion. Secondly/:. The Schseme is strongly justifiedr ‘on -ind.ustria,] and commercial grounds because Russia is, eventually, likely to be able to absorb Brit-a.in’s entim exportable surplus. This» se»heun.e will benefit the whole of ; !Russia, all of whose people, apart] [from a Bolshe-vist minority, will assist itso reconstruct British trade. The isrchemev has the strong supzort of Mr Bonar Law, Auckland Geddes, and Lord Milne:r. The Government is prepared with this -assent of the House of Commons: to grant a further i‘went_vfive millions towards the scheme it necessary. Trade must, for some time, In.» conducted lby means of bartc-.;, 'owing to the position of trade traders 'will find in Russia, cooperative .-z0(:i----,eties numbering 28,000 bralic-hers run [with experienced and trustworthy or-‘ganis-ation. Trading‘ under this scheme ?will not be controlled by“ -'3O 7el':lliielit. Certain banking and insurance author-‘ itilzs have examined and approved the] scheme and Roberts, Food Controller in Britain has undertaken to supply Russia with seeds, clothing and eeier goods; «in exchange for com food and raw materials. This comb-s into operation at an early date. It is ostiniated that Russian Co-operative.-. Societies have twenty-five million pleasant inem-‘ bers. They recently held a Congress‘ in Moscow, and -sent delegatlms to Paris. They formerly had ofiices in” London and Paris; these will be reoragnised at the iearliest date. Mr Henderson in outlining the La‘ bour Party’s policy, says the collapse] of _anti—revolutionarie~s in Russia has confronted Britain with two dangers,’ Soviet intrigubs in the Middle East, and a ‘campaign in Poland. The best provision against the first is trade with the Soviet; the remedy for the second is to arrangp terms with Poland and the Soviet, otherwise we shall be faced with the danger of a Sov.iet invasion of Poland, and possibly with infierruption in Wes'tern Europe. I