Evening star., 1922-09-24
The Story the Week Has Told

isaseperssd se . That % the president Of the Rsieh.
Taass saf
Bank Of England to be drawn against as the
notes successively mature. Whether or not
nificance r @ that hat the Germans having to dnd the
money. found IT,. The Germans turned over
the ,hsmseyes SATISFIED with the guarantees OF
fered. and the crisis ended
Soviet Russia-Leslie Urquhart, head Of
the Russo-Asatic Company and Krasin. soviet
commissar of foreign trade and commerce,
have signed an agreement providing for res
toration to the usso-Asiatic Company (under>
a ninety -nine-year lease) Of some s2.beo,oQ0
acres of mining lands in Siberia, partly owned
by that company, partly held by 1t under a
seventy-fve-year lease prior to the boishevist
regime The Russo Asiatic Company entered
a claim against the soviet government for
against the soviet government. including that
Of the Russo-Asiatic Company. Is about f200,-
Of ;Ss Claimed they the
erty In its damaged condition and. to compen-
safe for H expora dues IN
The concession is burdened with per
loyalty on o
gold. lead and zinc; blast furnaces and steel
works turning ont ished cs napfe sa a
railways and a river fleet: and settlements
with ho%ses churches hSspt,1s SCHOOL, ste
cation by the soviet government Is required,
but that is understood to be certain Many
are convinced that this agreement will be fol-
lowed by. many similar ones: indeed. that it
is prelusive to general restoration on bases
scarcely less satisfactory than the old ones. of
economic relations with Russia Others are
NOT 80 convinced. believing that there is a
sinister plan behind this one instance OF fair
OF the $4,000 shareholders of the Russo
= Yfr,HfA ~ xhA nni1 ft1y
British. but the Krupps and other German
interests are heavily Interested: much 50
in Germany as the beginning Of Joint Brit
ish-German development Cor "exploitation')
of Russia, an idea pleasing to some and ex-
supposins the great former concessionaires
SATISFACTION the small concessionares and the
holders of pre-bolshevist Russian bonds.
ernmens are ' as feexs; pfiti,n d Zoo
chiefly industrial; French, 100000 gold
trial claims; Belgian. 100000 gold francs.
chiefly industrial claims.
The Near East.-Having cleared the Greeks
out Of Asia Minor, Mustapha Kemal Pasha
proceeded to the final steps toward fulfill
ment of the national pact which pact calls
for complete restoration Of Turkish SOW
ereiSnty over territories in which Turks
merically predominate. According to Turkish
statistics, ,Thrace to the Martha river and in
GLIDING Adrianople is included in these
territories Kemai made heavy concentrations
coast occupied by the allies: ie., over against
chanak Kalessi. on the Dardanelles. and over
stantinople. The British authorities thereupon
notified Kemal that invasion by him Of the
neutralixed zones would be resisted by British
troops, and requested Of him assurance
that, pending an international conference to
consider his claims. he would not molest those
areas. Kemal replied through the French
that he would give the assurance requested
. on condition that Britain, France and Italy
would at once promise him possession of east
ern Thrace as defined above prior to negotia-
tion, which negotiation should. therefore.
Germ itself chiefly with the status Of the
straits. and in which negotiation Russia and
Bulgaria should be invited to participate. 1t