Russia The Soviet Government continues its course unchanged. The prospects
of bread supplies in Russia grow worse, and the Government pours out venomous words to divert the attention of the more ignorant of its subjects V) London and Manchuria. There is probably plenty of intrigue in China, but outwardly only a war of words, and it remains clear that both sides desire chiefly to save their faces in the truly oriental manner which they share. A great, so-called anti-war demonstration in Moscow on August 1st was organized as a thorough- going militarist display in which Russians alone saw no irony. It is not creditable to the Muscovite autocrats or to their friends and correspondents here that they should continue to deceive their subjects and play upon their fears by proclaiming the imminent war that Great Britain is for ever about to launch upon Russia. The Government here seems rightly to be making no advance at present towards the discussion of the renewal of official relations. The Soviet Ambassador in Paris was instructed not to discuss conditions, and we ' can wait until his instructions are changed,
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