16 APRIL 1927, Page 2

Moscow is spluttering indignation. Labour here shares in the indignation

on the ground that the Ministers of the various Legations gave permission for the raid. All we can say is that such matters should be seen in proportion. No diplomatic official likes the idea of a trespass upon extra-territorial rights whatever the merits of the case may be. For he knows that some day the turn of his own Embassy or Legation may come. It has, however, been the established practice in Peking for the Legation staffs to give permission for foreign premises to be examined when the Peking Government suspected . that Chinese conspirators against public order had taken refuge in the Legation quarter.