26 MAY 1923, Page 2

A Note from the Soviet Government was handed to Lord

Curzon on Wednesday night by M. Krassin, the Envoy from Moscow. We may say at once that the Note, though containing, as seems to be inevitable in Bolshevik diplomacy, some equivocal language, displays a strong enough desire for peace to make it incumbent upon the British Government to act upon it and make sure that peace ensues.. The Note declares the willingness of the Soviet Government to conclude immediately a Convention giving British fishermen rights outside the three-mile limit. It is proposed that the whole question of the limit of coastal jurisdiction should be settled by international conference. We can take no exception to that proposal.