BOLSHEVIK ENVOY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 28 June 1920, Page 7

BOLSHEVIK ENVOY.

o ENGLISH MERCHANT'S TREATLONDON. June 10. A Londonn merchant exposes Krassin as follows: — Ir appears that the merchant was

imprisoned in Russia during the war and forced to yield British notes in exchange for Soviet notes, as well a? thousands of dollars. He lately entered Krassin's rocms. and was recognised by the Russian | trade delegate, who eyed him suspicj iously, and the encounter deve oped into circumloctuory reference from one clerk to another. The merchant asked for the Soviet note.s to be cashed, and Krassin shouted, business oi that kind is not done here. Take them to Litvinoff." "Yes," the merchant retorted. "Litvinoff will send me elsewhere, and sc on. Your people forced this paper ori poor victim s at the point of the bayonet, and now you repudiate it. How do you expect to be trusted by the British if you do not recognise youi obligations?" The encounter ended in a shouting match, and the visitor departed with

' out saying goodbye. He adds that he saw p enty of evidence that British | were ready to do business. : P. ::,£, leader of the Norwegian communists, reports that Lenin, in an in- . terview, admitted that proletaria dici tu.tcrsb.ip had deepened famiue. It ! \-:ua impossible, he said, to obtain ! meat and cereals, because the peasants consumed them, and consequenti ly the Russian worker only got 2501 b iof grain yearly, instead of 61011 b. which wa s the minimum needs of a household "This pleasant egotism must be broken down, even with the help of the army.V he added. "The time has come when the peasant must be brought to reason.