The Washington times., 1920-08-17
FRANCE LOSES
DEBT OF CAR
Reds Repudiated Thirty Billion
Franc Loan as ReprisaI for
WrangeI Aid.
BY KARL H. Won W1EGAND.
fcopvrisht. 1920. Star Coz

BERLIN, Aug. 17.--Soviet Russia
will not pay the thirty billion franc
debt Csaristic Russia owed to France.
Soviet Russia is ready to make pub
lis amends to Germany for the muir
der Of Count Mirbach, the German
ambassador to Moscow. in 1918.
There is no secret treaty between
Germany and Russia.
The authority for the above Is
Wigdor Kopp. the Soviet emissary to
Berlin. who has returned here from a
visit to Moscow with greatly enlarged
powers.
In an interview with me lie char
acterized President Wilson's note
relative to Soviet Russia and issued
from Washington a few days ago as
"a deteriorated edition of the Four
teen Points" He said:
1.-The father Of the Fourteen Points
who has strikingly shown the world
what q contradition there can be be-
tween words and deeds, is just the
man to reproach us for what he de-
clares to be a contradiction between
our words and acts"
He doubted whether the greater
part Of the American people Is in ac-
cord with the Presidents note mix
ing in other peoples business" and
added:
Despite its many moral phrases. it
seems to US that the present Admin
istration is the most,reactionary gov
ernment the American people have
had in decades. and the French gov
ernment seems the most stupid.
RUSSIA WILL DIsARM POLAND.
"One thing IL certain, the French
can stand on their heads and the
English can do what they plelse. but
1t will not dissuade us from disarm-
Ing imperfalistlc Poland, 50 That Po-
Land will not attack ms again.
after the sacrifices we have made
to defend ourselves the disarmament
Is a duty we owe to the Russian
people. The Eastern ethnographic
line of Poland will be respected
boundary remains to be SEEN"
asked him what Russia thought
of the recognition of General Wran-
gel by France. He replied:
"Fr.nce IL simply forcing us to
conduct another war aGainst General
Wrange1. and there can be no doubt
about his fate. II Will be the same
n that Of Yudenitch and Denekine.
"The question OF Russians debt to
France can now be regarded as set
| tied. 1t cannot come up for con-
| sideration again. The action OF
France relieves the Soviet govern
ment from assuming the debt.
SECRET TREATY DENIED.
The persistent reports that there
10 a secret agreement between Soviet
Russia and Germany can only be
ascribed to the French as a means
of yelling their intentions to seize
more German territory. The French
are actuated by primitive instincts
and are seeking to construe cause
which they think would Justify them
in marching into the Ruhr and TAX
ing 1t from Germany"
He told me that the Soviet Govern
ment was arranging to make amends
to Germany for the murder of Count
Mirbach. Mirbach, he said, was not
the victim of the Soviet Government,
but Of a counter revolutionary move
ment. He said that more than 200
persons had been executed for partici'
pating in the attempted coup.
1t is known that the matter OF
amends has been taken UP with the
Foreign Office. What its form is TO
be has not been determined. 1t may
be the firing Of a formal salute or the
placing of a wreath on the slain Am
bassadors grave