Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-04-21
ALLIES AND RUSS
REACH AGREEMENT
Deadlock Is Broken After a TWO
Days Fight.
BIG COUNTER-CLAIMS MADE
Reds Present Demands for Vast DAM
ages Caused by the War Waged by
Wrangel and Deniken-pa le-
gates Are Statesmen.

Genoa, April 17.-The deadlock In
the Genoa conference has been bro
ken. The allies have reached an
agreement with Russia. The Russian
attitude on the proposals of the al
lied experts for the payment OF the
czariStic debts has changed from deep
pessimism to hopeful understanding,
NJ Joffe, a member of the Russian
'big five" and former Russian am
bassador to Berlin, made public
the above information in a statement.
1t is understood that the Russians are
yielding on numerous questions or
finance while the French are yield
ing on judicial demands.
The agreement was reached after
two days bitter battle over debts, a
moratorium and recognition at the in
formal conferences of the allied and
Russian leaders at Prime Minister
Lloyd Georges villa.
The entente offered Russia a mora
forum until 1927, provided Russia
then paid between 62,0O00O0,000 gold
francs ,5O0,OO0,0O0) and 80,000,-
100000 gold francs ($16,000,0
with interest.
Russian Demands Recognition.
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin re-
piled that the sum was fantastic and
beyond all powers of Russia to pay
and he demanded recognition, de jure
and de faeto, of soviet Russia before
the debts were discussed further.
nf fal
Russia from 20 to % years before it
could be SO reconstructed, even under
the most favorable conditions and
through aid from foreign countries,
that it would be able to show trade
balance. He declared it would be i'm
possible for the nation to pay inter-
est on debts without having revenues
above it's expenditures.
NJ Tchitcherin informed the en-
tente opposition that Russia's national
revenue before the war was 1000
100000 gold rubles ($6,0O0,000,000
where as the present revenue. was
5,O0O,O00,O00 gold rubles ($2,500,0O0,-
OOO).
"You want us within five years."
he declared, ito pay interest which Is
bigger than our whole budget for ex-
penditures 1t will be at least 20
years before Russia will arrive at a
revenue equal to that of before the
war"
Russia Presents Some Bills.
M. Tchitcherin, with his colleagues,
NM. Joffe and Rakowsky, decided
they could not under any conditions
accept the entente demands, which,
they called disastrous. Mr.. Ragow-
sky declared the entente terms "show'
they do not want Russia resurrected."
Countering Mr.. Lloyd George and
M. Barthou's debt collection propo-
sails, M. Tchitcherin gave the figures
on Russia's claims, saying that the
civil wars conducted by Generals
Wrangel, Denikin and others were
merely "a subterfuge of another Euro
pean country which was really wag-
ing the war in order to collect the
late cars debts. Therefore he
claimed the soviets had a right to col
lect damages for these wars and for
the allied blockades, which he claimed
resulted in One-fourth of the land be-
ing uncultivated and so per cent OF
the agriculture destroyed He fig
ured these damages at $25,OOO,OOO,-
600.
Furthermore the Russians denied
the entente claims for revolutionary
damages. M. Rakowsky stating, ''Why
should we pay for revolution which
British, French and other entente
diplomats in Petrograd financed and
encouraged In order to get rid of the
car and Rasputin and to establish
another form of government more
favorable to them? Naturally the dip
lomats did not foresee Bolshevism.
but nevertheless they caused the revo-
luton"