Evening star., 1927-05-29
RUSSIANS PREPARE
TO LEAVE LONDON
Soviet Mission Gets List of
Those Permitted to Stay
in Country.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 2S.-What will
probably be the final official British
communication to the Soviet mission
In London will be delivered at
Chesham house early next week. 1t
will be list of the names of those
Russians who will be permitted to
remain in London.
Meanwhile, hasty packing and prep.
arations for departure were the order
OF the day at Chesham house and
Soviet house, sign being posted at
the former place reading: "The Con
suiate General of the u. S. S. r. Is
Closed"
The work of leaving, however, has
proved so heavy that it was found
necessary to postpone the sailing of
the Russian ship Youshar until Tues
day. This ship will carry 35 Russian
officials and the bulk of their baggage.
Customs officers are inspecting care
fully every case taken aboard.
In communication to the press,
M. Khinchuk, head of ARGOS. Ltd.
said that the commercial agreements
and contracts by the Soviet trading
organizations and ARGOS, are termi.
mated and that these concerns are
compelled to wind up their work, since
the policy of the British government
left them without the possibility of
pursuing trading operations on the
basis of the general economic plan
of the Soviet Union.
Regrets Clerks Lose Jobs.
The statement added that the work
of such organizations as the Russo
British Grain Export Co. and similar
undertakings, will continue. if no OBJ
stacles are placed in their way. M.
khinchuk expressed regret at being
compelled to discharge his large staff
at such short notice.
The statement also promised that
all contracts with British firms will
be fulfilled to the letter. in accordance
with the terms of the contract, and
that all money obligations of the
Russian trading organizations would
be fulfilled similarly as they fell due.
For this later purpose a sufficient staff
will be left in London.
M. khinchuk further expressed his
firm belief that the British firms un-
der contract and agreement will in
dicate their willingness and give a
guarantee of fulfilling their contract
ual obligations. ''In this respect" he
concluded, I'VE assume the British
government will not put any obsta-
cles in the way of fulfillment of the
contracts and the financial obligations
by the Soviet organizations or
British firms"
Charges Defeat In China.
A Reuters dispatch from Moscow
saws Maxim Litvinoff. acting foreign
secretary in the absence of M. Tchit.
cherin, in note addressed to the Brit
ish charge d'affaires, asserts that the
Soviet government was not surprised
by the breaking off of diplomatic re-
lations between Great Britain and
Moscow.
Litvinoff charges that the rupture
signifies the defeat of the Baldwin
governments policy in China and is
an attempt to mask that defeat by a
diversion directed against the Soviet
government to save Sir William
Joynson Hicks, British home secre.
tary, from a scandalous position.
The Soviet foreign commissar denies
all charges made by Great Britain or
violating the Anglo Russian trade
pact. These charges. he asserts. were
based on false information and forged
documents with which the British
government freely operated.