Berlin, Oct. 1.
Comrade Chicherin is very busy. He is repeatedly conferring with Herr Luther. and Dr. Stresemann, He was entertained at a banquet by tthe latter yesterday and at luncheon: by Herr Luther to-day.
Comrade Chicherin is negotiating with German bankers to secure credits of a hundred million marks to purchase agricultural machinery in Germany.
It is announced that the commercial pourparlers between Russia and Germany are so advanced that conclusion of a treaty is expected before Herr Luther and Dr. Strese-_ mann depart for Locarno to-morrow.
Political circles surmise that Comrade Chicherin's activities are in. nowise unconnected with the discus~ to take place at Locarno (on the Security Pact) and their possible effect on the Rapallo Treaty.
The German Nationel Party, who ordinarily oppose everything bolsheistic, are at. present extolling the advantages of a_Germano-Russian rapprochement.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.