London, Mar. 29.
Commenting on the meeting of the Supreme War Council yesterday, the diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" states that Franco-Soviet rclations are undoubtedly strained at the moment, although neither side is exaggerating the Souritz affair, "There is no Allied difference in outlook towards the Soviet, whose policy becomes increasingly clear in ihe betrayal of last August, in the Occupation of the Baltic islands and ports, and in the unprovoked attack on Finland," he says, The French Ministers are known io be specially anxious about the passage of German imports through Siberia, and they are anxious, above all that the closest check should be kept on the passage of minerals hi Soviet ships, The British detention of two Soviet merchantmen has the greatest im-Reuter, portance, in their eyes, he
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