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Show REDS' MESSAGES TO PAPER BARED Labor Publication Denies Russ Soviets Had Extended Subsidy LO.MhiV, Aug 1"J. V series of wireless messages between George Ti hltoherln, Russian Bolshevik for- i i';n minister, and Maxim Lilvinolf. Bolshevik representative ln Copenha- II during February, March and July, dealing with liniinclal trHna-tctiuna be- ii cen the Russian soviet government ai.d the London Daily Herald, was of-ft'iallv of-ft'iallv made public hore lonlghl 'l i ,,-se messuges. intercepted in soerul l.i.ropean oounferies, seem incomplete-Some incomplete-Some of them r.-fer to a commerci.il i ul In newspiint paper, and others apparently snow that M Liivinoff was u j;inp M Tchitchsrln to subsidise tho EX raid. A message sent In Fsbruary declared declar-ed thul thi- newspaper was losing 10,-C00 10,-C00 per vveelc :nd anothsr ocnt in July said the paper irecded 60,000 francs for six months "1 consider the Heralds work especially es-pecially Important for us." said this mssaagS U acts as if It were our organ Later the Bolshevik foreign minister minis-ter directed M Lltvinoff io tell the management of the Herald that a "cubsidy vvould.be paid" and that certain cer-tain Chinese bonda would be handed over to ihe newspaper. In one of M Tchitcheiln ; massages. sliH on February 2S. M. Lltvinoff was Instruct! 1 to consult the editor of the Hi i ah i .. .l ding details of publication . Bngl 'H adding Point out to him who will give him ordira and regulate the number of ccpiea Isn't he now able to send 1-gal 1-gal pamphlets to America'.'" This isolated lefercncc to Ameilcfti lis not explained. The Herald prints the official statement, state-ment, together with u statement by Its editor, George Lanisburv. declaring I that all of the newspaper's messages dealing with the Russian government v i it legitimate business ti ansuctlons lanu concerned the purchase of newsprint news-print paper, which, however, was not I obtained. it is denied the Russian government directly or Indirectly had the slightest control of the Herald and alro that the newspaper ever received .Chinese bonds from the Russian gov-ei gov-ei anient. |