The Archive · 1930

Soviet Emissaries Held at Ellis Island

New York, Mar, 13.

The same bill includes $150,000. for expenses of the American delegation to the London Five-Power Naval Limitation Conference. Opponents of the Administration had contemplated using the threat of withholding of funds as 2 means of wringing concessions, but it was apparently decided that this would be inadvisable.

An appropriation of $12,000,000 for river and harbour works was also passed.—United Press.

Lonoox, Mar. 12:—The Prince of Wales is now at Entebbe. Yesterday. he flew over Entebbe and Kampala, in a South African Air Force machiny—Wireers through Reater, Twenty "representatives of the [Soviet Government, who arrived yesterday in the White Star liner Majestic, are being detained at Ellis Island.

The delegates claim'to have come the United States to purchase American machinery through the Amtorg Corporation—a body that] iwas formed to facilitate trade between Britain and Russia. The Corporation, however, Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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