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Show BOLSHEVIK GOLD KULONDON Engiish Labor Paper Is Given Soviet Money; Parleys ot Reds Cancelled LONDON, Sept. 13 The Times this morrins: says the Russian soviet eov -rrnment's placing of 75.1)00 of 'Bol-sheAlk 'Bol-sheAlk gold" In the hands of the Herald, Her-ald, the labor oraan. temporarily has wrecked the work of the Bolshevik commercial ml?sion tn lxjndon at a moment when M Krooain and Lee Kameneff, the commissioners, had high hopes of immediate results. Krassln and Kameneff. says the Times, had an appointment vtth Premier Pre-mier I.loyd George Friday to notify him of the progretcs of certain trade negot'atlons and the prospects of establishing es-tablishing trade relations. But on arriving ar-riving at Downing -treet. they were politely Informed that the Heralds announcement thnt it had In its possession pos-session the soviet gold had entirely-altered entirely-altered the situation and that until that wa explained, it would be Im-1 Im-1 possible to deal with any other sdb 1 Jects, in view of the understanding I that while the Ritonjon wan here no! propaganda should be attempted His. I Ms KNOW I.KIM. 1 In a three-hour Interview. KreJeln! assured the premier that he and Ka-i meneff were entirely Ignorant of the Bolshevik offer to the Herald and Kameneff seld he was returning on Saturday to Moscow, where he would I consult his colleagues concerning the' offer. Meantime, says the Times, the activity of the soviet mission has been suspended. According to the Herald's verdon of the Interview, the premier "fiercely attacked Kameneff for alleged breaches of faith regarding implied obligation."- not to interfere in British I Inte rnal policies." adding Mr. Lib) d George charged Rmmeneff with disposing dis-posing of Rkssihti precious stones In Grcj Britain, of being instrumental I In giving the Herald 76,000, of having hav-ing relations with the council of action, ac-tion, and of deliberately misrepresenting misrepre-senting 10 the British government tho j Ruoalan terms for an armistice with Poland. ri 1 1 k IL PARI 1 STOPS Mr. Lloyd George. According to the Herald, dissociated Krassln from these charges, hut he intimated fhnt Kameneff Ka-meneff could rjot be trusted and also that If Kameneff had not been returning return-ing to Russia on his own Initiative he would have been asked to leave the countiy Kameneff denied e cry-charge cry-charge against him The herald adds that the premier regards the political negotiations as definitely Interrupted but says the trade negotiations will be allowed to continue. Some of the newspapers assert that Kameneff will not be allowed to return re-turn to England. |