5 MARCH 1927, Page 2

It must be admitted that Soviet writers emerge from wordy

skirmishes of this sort with few wounds and a good, deal of superficial credit. The moral is that the British Government would be well advised to make their extremely well justified protests in some other Ions. The real issue which M. Litvinoff did not touch was the British accusation that the Soviet Government had itself instigated and directed the attacks on British interests in China, and had also grossly intervened in British domestic affairs. M. Litvinoff could not deny these things, nor could lie pretend. that British foreign policy has ever included anything comparable with the persistent and malicious mischief-making against other nations which is part of the day-to-day policy of the Soviet.