Agreement London, July 7.
The silence regarding the Anglo-Russian negotiations, which was beginning to be regarded in some quarters as ominous, was partly broken in the House' of Commons to-night in the debate on a motion by Sir A. Stod-Maitland (Conserv: tive), complaining that the Government had failed to full their promise to keep Parliament informed of the mately of events.
Mr, Arthur Ponsomby, the Under-Secretary of "State for Foreign Affairs, said that he hoped to submit the outcome of the conference before the summer recess, but it was difficult to.deat with the matter fully at the present critical stage, ust as it was reaching the last three weeks, when it had picked up various threads and was trying to come to an agreement. He said that those old treaties with Russia which were to be continued had been revised and would be ready for signature, Referring to Soviet press attacks, BIN. Ponsonby declared that the Bolsheviks were more afraid of the Labour Party as a bulwark against, Communism than they were afraid of the Conservatives (cheers and laughter).
The debate was adjourned until Negotiations Likely to be Protracted Moscow, July 8.
Mr. Arthur Ponsonby's hopes, expressed in the British House of Commons last night, are not shared ty the London correspondent of the la," who declares that the British delegates to the Anglo-Russian Conference have hitherto only placed obstacles in the way of agreement, and, while it is not true to suggest that a complet: rupture is pending, the Conference is likely to be protracted—Reuter.
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