§ Sir W. SEAGERasked the Prime Minister, in view of the fact that the Soviet Republic is a federation of states, whether all the groups of Russian states recognise M. Krassin as their representative and will support his negotiations in the event of their success?
§ The PRIME MINISTERM. Krassin is a representative of the Russian Socialist Federated Republic. He can only speak for the areas over which this Government have effective control, but that represents the greater part of European Russia and Siberia.