Origi of Reports Traced to Paris and Moscow Berlin, Apr. 17.
The rumours about an alleged im= pending rapprochement between Germany and. Soviet Russia which appeared In some sections of the for~ sri press, are being ridiculed in German political circles.
The reports are characterized here as fabrications intended to influence some Balkan states still hesitating to recognize Soviet Russia.
The. newspaper "Essence Nationalzeitung(" which is credited with hav close connections with General ing says these reports were ead jointly by Paris and Moscow in order to paralyse the anti-Bolshevist front and win Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to eo-operation. with Soviet Russia, The paper recalls the anti-Bolshevist keynote of the last Nuremberg party con= vention and says no speech by Yeading parly member leaves any doubt about Germany's. anti-Bolshevist course—Trans-Ocean Kuo
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