The Prime Minister on Thursday made a crushing reply to
M. Kameneff's letter. M. Kameneff, so far from knowing nothing about the sale of Russian jewels, had actually informed Moscow that diamonds to the value of £40,000 had been sold in England and the proceeds paid to the Daily Herald, and that £10,000 more was to be paid to that paper. Some of the notes received on H. Kameneff's behalf for the Russian jewels had found their way to Mr. Edgar Lansbury, the son of the editor of the Daily Herald. That paper had announced the offer of a Bolshevik subsidy on Friday week simply because Mr. Edgar Lanabury knew, from the police, that the notes had been traced to him, so that the secret could not be kept any longer. We discuss the Daily Herald's position elsewhere. The Prime Minister stated also that M. Kameneff, in order to mislead the Government and the public, had deliberately altered the wording of the peace terms offered by Moscow to Poland, so that the Bolshevik demand for a Polish " Red Army " controlled by their own adherents appeared only as a proposal for a " civic militia." M. Kameneff had thus violated the pledge which he gave to refrain from propaganda here.
