The Archive · 1924

Soviet's Reply to British Note

Moscow, Oct. 26.

A Soviet Note in reply to the British Note opens by adhering to its repeated declarations regarding the non-responsibility of the Soviet Government for the acts of the Communist International.

It says that the Soviet at present abstains from touching upon the form and tone of the British Foreign Office Note, but hastens to declare that the alleged Zinovieft letter is an impudent forgery aiming at the destruction of the Angle-Soviet Treaty. and the ruin of friendly Anglo-Soviet relations, which happily were beginning to improve.

The reply continues:—"In view of the use of forgery in an official document, the Soviet Government and official persons."

It concludes by saying that, fully appreciating the serious consequences that the forgery might have on both countries, te Soviet Government urgently and decidedly elfers recourse to an impartial arbitration court to establish the fact that the letters forgery London, Oct.

M. Rakoveky, the Soviet Charge Affaires in Great Byitain, to-day transmitted to the Foreign Office the Soviet reply to the British Note on the subject of the Zinovielt letter—Reuter.

Prophecy of Proletarian Rising in Germany Riga, Oct. 26.

In connexion with the celebration of the anniversary of the Communist outbreak at Hamburg last year, M. Zinovielf to-day declared that a proletarian revolution was approaching in Germany in spite of all the Dawes, Eberts and Noskes. The Hamburg rising was a Communist that Secretary Hughes's laurels are elvess rehearsal—Reuter.

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