Annoyed

Into the office of the Russian Trade Delegation at Berlin marched the Berlin police, searched the premises for a Communist against whom a warrant had been issued, turned the place upside down.

Russians ranted; Soviet Ambassador Krestinsky called upon Foreign Minister Stresemann, protested energetically against "an unparalleled violation of extraterritorial rights."

In Moscow, M. Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars, said: "There are only two possible explanations of the incident--either the Prussian State Police acted clumsily, without authority of the German Government, or the latter has deliberately shown the utmost unwisdom in committing a breach of the friendly and neighborly relations between Russia and Germany."

Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, said: "Everything tends to show that the police acted on instructions from the central authorities . . . the action of the German police was audacious and insolent."

Ambassador Krestinsky was recalled to Moscow. But it was stated by a Kremlin official that no thought of breaking relations with Germany was entertained.