Sioux County pioneer., 1922-04-27

N the private conversations that have
been going on In his Genoa villa ar
rangements would be made with Rus
sia that would prejudice the interests
of the smaller powers. The Russians
also insisted that Germany must sit
in all conferences berause there were
many questions still at issue between
Germany and Russia. ON Thursday,
however. Lloyd George said the Ger
mans had agreed not to participate in
discussions of Russian affairs.
% ARTHOU of France held with
ID Lloyd George that the Russo-Ger-
man pact revealed violations of the
treaty Of Versailles and that the Ger.
mans must be excluded. He was
backed up to the limit by his govern
ment. Premier Poincare sent to the
French ambassadors In the allied
countries instructions to insist that
energetic measures be taken and pen
alties applied to Germany If the Ra.
pallo treaty were not abrogated, re-
gardless of what the Genoa confer
ence might decide in the matter. ~"
held that the execution of the treaty
Of Versailles must be insisted upon
now. Both the British and the
French feel that the Russo German
pact, while nominally economic, Is in
reality political and embodies a dis
tinct threat of complete alliance Of
the two countries against the entente.
1t Is believed, too, that 1t would re-
suit in the commercial suffOcation of
Poland and perhaps of the other small
iations that lie between Russia and
Germany and along the Baltic, and
those Of the little entente.
One thing Is evident: Frances fear
that the Genoa conference would get
into q muddle, and her absolute dis
trust Of Germany's good faith and
good intentions are justified. A writer
in the Paris L'Eclair says Germany
has sent 1900 "shock troops" into
the Ruhr and is ready for resistance
in Silesla. while the soviet armies are
threatening the Polish and Rumanian
frontiers. He adds: There is no
time to lose IL we want to avoid war"
The nationalists Of Italy are no less
alarmed, seeing in the pact prepara-
t1on for a great alliance between Ger
many and Russia and probably the
entire Islam world and a war in the
not distant future between those pow
yrs and the allied nations.
Lf;s
| DLANS are under way for a finan-
cial conference to be called by
the European banks Of issue to dis
cuss plans for the. regulation Of cur
rency, in which conference the United
States Federal Reserve bank will be
asked to take part. Meanwhile, great
bankers, including ]. Pierpont Nor.
| gan, are arranging to meet In Europe
to study the question Of an interna-
tional loan to Germany to help in the
reconstruction Of that country, to i'm;
prove her exchange and TO assist her
In paying the reparations. In view ot
Germany's repeated refusal to pay
the allied reparations commission
virtually has turned that problem
over to financial experts.
THE long drawn-out peace negotia
= tions at Dairen between Japan
and the Far Eastern republic have
been broken of, and Japan has de
cided to send more lacements troops
into Siberia. The Chita delegates
according to Tokyo official statemenfs
after gaining some Of their points
made what the Japanese! considered
j impossible demands concerning prn
lection Of lives and properly Of for
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