Show SOVI SO SOVIET V I T AS ASKS K S SW WARS WAR'S W R S END ENDING I N G LABORING MASSES OF ENGLISH EMPIRE ALSO OPPOSE WAR IT IS SAID Prepares Prepare Note Which Ia I. Handed to Trade MIllion Chief Moscow Moscow Fulfilling tho the desire tot foi peace pence of or the tho laboring masses of the soviet union a and d in full tun coordination with the wishes of or the tho British masses tine tile soviet government will continue Its policy of peace excluding any aggressive aggressive ag ag- spirit toward any other countries and will sincerely welcome any any- n mutual step toward peace on OD the part of or Great Britain This is the keynote of or Russia's reply re re- ply to Great Groat Britain's threat throat to break off oU diplomatic relations with the sovIet sov soviet soy soy- iet let unless antl British anti discontinued The rho Russian Hussion note was was prepared by M. M acting foreign minister unit and handed to William Peters acting chief of the trade mission at 0 30 o'clock Sunday night Just an nn hour before It was given to the tho Russian newspapers The rho foreign office wIthheld withheld with wIth- withheld held the lie note from flom tilE the American and other oilier for foreign correspondents orr ostensibly ostensibly bly so that the British government might receive the tho text before it was published by the foreign newspapers |