BOLSHEVISM.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1920, Page 12

BOLSHEVISM.

. TRADE AS ANTIDOTE. . - ""MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S EFFORTS JUSTIFIED." "Personally, I believe that Mr. Lloyd George has been justified in his recent, attempts to open up trade relations with Russia," stated Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, in an interview with a Wei-ling-ton Times reporter. "I think so, for the reason that, if we can cause these Bolsheviks to transfer their attention from warlike to peaceful activities and develop the resources of that wonderful country, a settlement of the difficulties with which Russia is now. contending would speedily result There is a magnificent market in Great Britain for the raw materials which Russia is in a position to supply; and they could be paid for bv manufactured goods exported from Great Britain to that country. Here, again, as in the case of our overseas Dominions, there would not bp the same difficulty in regard to exchange that exists between (he United Spates and Japan on the one side and Great Britain and the Dominions on the other. "No doubt, in the action that Japan has taken in advancing or offering to advance money to Russia, she is actuated by a desire to establish big trade relations with that country. The same applies to her offer to China. In a letter I recently received from an officer, who was connected with the Intelligence Department and was posted in Russia for nearly two years during the war, he pointed out that, with others, a number of Americans and Japanese were endeavoring to open up trade relations with Russia, on behalf of their respective countries, but he had not noted the same activity on the part of the representatives of Great Britain or other European