Moscow (by mail), May 15.
Rosta News Agency.—The following is a decree of the Soviet Government designed to put into effect the various provisions of the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement:
In connexion with the signing of the Trade Agreement between the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic and Great Britain on March 16, the Council of People's Commissars has decided:
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(A) To instruct the People's Commissariat of Naval" Affairs:
1. To consider as ports open to foreign commercial vessels the White Sea ports, Murmansk, Sevastopol. Feodosia and Novorossish, and likewise, after the channels have been freed from mines, in the Baltic Sea, Kronstadt, and in the sea of Azov, Genichesk, Mariupol and Restov.
2. To clear at once from mines and mark with buoys and naval signs the routes to the port of Kronstadt, first by the coast channel and later by great ship channel, the same with respect to the routes of Murmansk, Genichesk and Rostov, and to clear the mines from the entrance to the Sea of Azov.
3. To arrange for meeting and conveying ships to these ports and to publish rules for vessels approaching the ports and for the reception of arriving vessels.
4. To present to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs a questionnaire covering the information necessary for our trawling activities, which the British Government, according to Article 3, paragraph 2, of the agreement, agrees to communicate to the Russian Government, namely, information about mines laid by British vessels and by vessels of the Grand fleet and others in the zones of approach to Russian ports, and also information as to the channels and mine fields and the degree of security of navigation in the various sea areas, so far as this information is at the disposal of the British Government.
5. To present to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affiars information regarding the mine fields laid during the world war in the!
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