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Show Will Exchange Diplomats With Great Britain If Neutrals Neu-trals Will Grant Safe Conduct Con-duct for Bolsheviki. AMSTERDAM,' Sept. 3 The soviet government of Russia is willing to prepare for the exchange of diplomats with Great Braitain if the neutral powers will undertake to guarantee that the Bolshevik representatives at London are given a safe conduct home. The following statement by Foreign Minister Tchitcherln forwarded to the Vossischo Zeitung by the Petrograd Telegraph agency outlines the soviet conditions. "After discovery of the course of action of the French and British diplomats, dip-lomats, whose activities were directed against the soviet power, the government govern-ment of the soviet republic found itself it-self obliged to Isolate various agents of the powers named. Nevertheless, the government, as before, is willing to prepare for the exchange of diplomats dip-lomats if the neutral powers will undertake un-dertake to guarantee that M. Litvinoff and all Russian citizens receive a safe , conduct, that Litvinoff 's and his collaborators' col-laborators' baggage be permitted to pass without examination and that no further difficulties be put in the way of his collaborators. "Those conditions must, together with free exit from London and passage pas-sage across Scandinavia, be guaranteed guaran-teed by Holland, Norway and Sweden. M. Litvinoff is being notified by telegraph tele-graph and on receipt of his answer confirming his departure R. H. Lock-hart, Lock-hart, acting British consul-general, and thoso accompanying him will then I be handed over to the protection of the Dutch representatives. "In other disputed questions previous pre-vious agreements will remain valid." Following an attack on the British consulate at Petrograd on August 31 In which Captain Cromie, the British attache, was killed, the British government govern-ment demanded Immediate reparation. In addition the British government placed M. Litvinoff, Bolshevik representative repre-sentative in London, under preventative preventa-tive arrest. |