BRITAIN'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S PART.

THE ATTITUDE TO RUSSIA.

PROTEST AGAINST OUR HELP. , PEACE SAID TO BE POSSIBLE. By Telejraßh.—Frew Assn.—Copyrlrht. Received Nov. 9, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 8. In the House' of Commons, Mr Wedgwood moved to reduce the War Office vote by £15,000,000 as a protest against the help given to Deniken and Yudenitch.

Colonel Cecil Malone, who hits been visiting Moscow, stated he interviewed 1 Trotsky, who said ho had discussed matters with the Soviet leaders, and he believed peace between Russia and the Allies was possible on terms substantially the same as those which had been published. He believed the Peace Conference would arrange that all exxisting Governments should remain in full control of the territory tliey now occupy. ' Mr John Ward, who has been in Russia for a year, protested against deserting our Russian Allies. Koltchak was the only man able to restore constitutional democracy in Russia. Mr Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for Wa.r), in reply, ridiculed the idea that the Labor Party represents the view of the masses regarding Russia. Everybody wanted a clear cut policy, but the Great Powers were baffled by the peculiar aspects of an unprecedented problem. Britain was acting in harmony with the Allied Powers, and they wore all anxious that Russia should not rise from the dead as a foe of the Allies. Britain, during 1910, sent Deniken twenty-eight millions in cash and seventeen millions' worth of stores. ♦ Mr. Adamson declared that the vast majority of Britishers were opposed to intervention in Russia, and he appealed to the Government to withdraw the Baltic Fleet. The amendment was defeated by 250 votes to 52. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.