Failure of Negotiations Due to A communique, issued to-day, lays the responsibility for, the _faitur of the Russo-Dutch negotiations Berlin upon the Russians, who, under the most-favoured nation clause, refused to grant to Holland: the advantages accorded to other nations who have recognized her. The Dutch Government does not intend to go further, because considers that a treaty as ce templated by Russia would be unsatisfactory from the point view of commerce, navigation, debts and credits.—Reuter.
The Propaganda Menace, The Hague, May 9.
It is learned that the Dutch Government's desire to come to an early arrangement with Soviet Russia is greatly tempered by the fear of Soviet: propaganda in the Dutch East Indies. There is reason to believe that the negotiations will eventually be resumed—Ruter,
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