The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-10
RUSSIA MUST GRANT TERMS
OF ALLIES OR LEAVE GENOA.
DEMAND OF LLOYD GEORG|
Soviet Cannot BeReceived at
Conference, Premier Says,
if 1t Rejects Civilized Inter-
course of Nations.
Comfy Is Fundamental Basis
of Farley, He Asserts, and
Invites United States to Re.
discover Old World.

ST. GEORGES PALACE. GENOA,
April lO.--David Lloyd George chal-
lenged the Russian delegates to-day
to accept Allied conditions as a basis
Or its presence at tho Genoa Eco
nomic Conference or withdraw.
In a speech which drew applause
tom the 157 delegates, representing
tiiirty-three nations, gathered In the
council hall for the opening session
of the most impressive International
conference since Versailles, the Brit
ish Premier declared the programme
for the parley was the programme
laid down at Cannes, Franco, by the
Supreme Council.
The French delegation applauded
loudly as Lloyd George. looking
directly across the council table 10
whore George Tchitcherin and the
Russian delegates sat. declared:
" anybody rejects these eIe.-g'
nentaSy conditions OF civilized in !
tereourse among nations, they
cannot expect to be received
Nhere. q
The Premier dominated the confer;
encc, which presented a picturesque
scene with delegates OF many races
and colors, some In gorgeous dress
uniforms, mingled at the long tables
Comfy of nations in the funda-
mental basis OF this conference" he.
declared. &.
IAN who are represented here arc,
presumed to have accepted the con-
ditions laid down at Cannes" n
This drew fresh applause, which
was led by the Allied representatives.
who sat on either side of the speaker
near the head of the council table.
The conditions of Russian attend.,
ance laid down at Cannes were ac-
cepted by the French, although
Brands Ministry fell as a result
They called for Russian recognition
of old debts and other guarantees.
Lloyd George did not specifically
mention the Bolsheviki at the opening
of his address, but it was clear 70
every one that he was throwing down
the gage to Tchitcherin and his coli
leagues. Z.
THE actual fighting has ceased =
Lloyd George said. entering Into QUE
of his oratorical flights which was
not entirely lost on the gathering DEF
spite the divergence of languages
spoken and understood, 'Ibut snappins
continues, as though many dogs ui
every country imagine that the loudeI
they bark the deeper will be the imi
preston OF their ferocity. a.
Europe to-day is almost defeated
with this canine clamor." 81
The delegations were seated ;i
tables ranged about the hall, With
the representatives OF the prin-
cipaI Allies in the foremost places.
The Italian delegation sat at the
end OF the hall. facing the main
entrance. On the right of the
Italians were the French and Ja-
panese delegations, and on the LET,
the British and Belgian. The other
delegations sat at tables placed OF
right angles to the main one, the
seating being in. alphabetical order,
resulting in the grouping of the ma
tions as follows:
First Table-Albania, Austria, Bu
garia and 'Czecho -SlovalIia.
Second Table-Denmark, Esthoniat
Finland and Germany.
Third Taible-Greece, Latvia, Lax
emburg. Norway and Holland pays
Bas).
Fourth Table--Roumania. Russia.
Serbia, spain and Sweden.
Switzerland and Hungary We're
seated at two additional small tables,
The Genoa conference is to be
"open." More than l., 900 newspaper
correspondents have come f9RAtha