The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-25
OUTLOOK NOT
ENCOURAGING
BUT HOPEFUL
Soviet Radicals Must
Modify Program If Ar
rangements With Allies
Are Made-Blarne u.
S. for Jap Troops In
Siberia


Genoa, April 25.+(By the Associat-
ed Press Foreign Minister Tchie-
tcherin of Soviet Russia declared to
the Associated Press today that AL
lied resistance to the Russian prin-
ciple of naturalization was blocking
the economic conference. ut is OBJ
vious," he said, that the only serious
obstacles to peace with Russia and
general reconstruction are the pre-
tensions of a few former owners of
property in Russia"
Genoa, April 25.-The Genoa con-
ference is drifting toward the rocks
again. Whether it can be kept from
: wreckage depends upon the possibil-
ity OF adjusting the new demands of
the Russian Soviet delegates with the
position of the Allied governments,
who declare they will steadfastly
stand by the resolutions adopted at
Cannes on which the conference was
founded.
The situation is made more critical
by the French premier; frank warn
ing in his address at Bar-Le-Duc yes
terday that France will withdraw
from the conference if she is unable
to see that the ideas express by the
French cabinet before parliament can
triumph
These French demands virtually in
clude maintenance of the war repara-
tions figures, disbarment of all dis
armament discussions and no change
at Genoa of existing treaties. In
addition France insists on rigid ad-
herence to the Cannes resolutions
which call for the payment of Russia's
pre-war debts and the restoration by
the Soviet of foreigners property IN
Russia.
The conference of experts on the
Russian question broke up yesterday
and adjourned sine die because the
experts representing the powers found
the Russians new set OF proposals alb
solutely in contradiction to the. So
Wet note accepting the Allies terms
as a basis for future deliberations.
Yesterday the Bolsheviki announced
their disinclination to restore private
property because everything was ma
tionalized in Russia, but in their note
of acceptance they voiced willingness
to restore such property or indemnify
the owners provided the country's war
debts to the Allies were cut down and
financial help for Russia was forth
coming.
Instead of accepting the Allies de-
mands for the payment of war debts
with the understanding that the debts
be scaled down and the arrears in in
terest either postponed or remitted
in part, the Bolsheviki has an entire
ly different proposition. They asked
the complete annullment of all war
debts.
Whereas they had previously agreed
to the payment of the financial obli-
cations due to foreign nationals which
are usually referred to as the pre-war
debts, the Soviet spokesmen asked
for morartium of thirty years on
these debts and the cancellation of
the interest, according to the allied
version of the meeting This cancel
lation was to apply both to the past
and to the period of the morartium.
Finally the Russians made clear
that, in refusing to restore private
property in Russia this would not i'm
ply any surrender by Russian citi-
zens of their rights to hold property
in fee simple in foreign lands "Bour-
gois" countries where the right to
possess property went with the Bour-
goise system.
Such. said the Bolsheviki were their
terms but they could only grant them
on condition that the powers repre-
sented at Genoa would at first recog-
nize the Soviet government and ac-
cord it adequate financial help for it's
proper economic reconstruction.
Under these conditions" said Sir
Laming NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., chairman
of the meeting, I'VE cannot discuss
any further. We must refer this mat
ter to our respective governments" 1t
was then decided to adjourn the sit
ting. sine die. and the experts which
the Russians arranged to meet today
and go over the entire situation.
The Russians contend that their
general attitude as to making treaty
with the powers has been misinter-
preted and one of the delegates also
charged that faulty translations had
been made of their counter-sugges-
tions last week
Despite the serious outlook, the
heads of the various delegations have
not abandoned all hope. Some, how
ever frankly informed the Associated
Press last night that they saw no pos
sibility Of making an arrangement
with the Soviets unless the latter
radicals modified their program.
While the Bolsheviki have given up
their counter claims for damage
charged to foreign nterventions in
Russia, the story went the rounds of
the delegation last night that they
will hold the United States morally
responsible for the presence of the
Iananeaa froano In Ciharias efuca tho
Japanese occupied the. territory not
only co-jointly with American troops
but actually at the request Of the
American government. "In that case"
said one Of the Japanese. jokingly.