Moscow, Nov, 21.
It is announced that the Ialian Government, as a result of diplomatic negotiations with Russia, closing down a number of its con plates in Russia—Reuter, Berlin, Nov, 20, 'The reduction by the Soviet Government of the number of German Consulates in' the Soviet Union described in political circles here as 8 measure motivated by the fact that the number of German subjects residing. in Soviet Russia has greatly decreased within recent years. The commercial exchange between Ger many and the Soviet Union has iso considerably diminished and the German trade with the Soviet Union has tended o concentrate itself in constantly increasing degree in Mos cow so. that likewise from this point of view it appeared unneces sary to maintain as many German Consulates as in the past, Apart from Moscow, it is probable that the only German Consulates in the Soviet Union in future will be fat Kiev and Novosibirsk. tt is be-
Heved here that the Soviet Consular service in Germany will be similarly reduced and that the Soviet Union will henceforth have Consular repre~ sentatives only in two large German seaports,—Trans-Ocean,
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