The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-19
With GERMANS
OUT CONFERENCE
HAS BEEN SAVED
Activities of the Various
Powers At Genoa Can
Now Be Resumed and
the Program AS Previ.
ously Arranged Car
ried To Completion

"A OAA5OA N>0A
ried To Completion
Genoa, April 19.-(By the Associ-
ated Press THE Genoa conference
apparently has been saved. For the
last two days it has been tottering
on the edge Of collapse, due to indig-
nation OF some of the more important
leaders over the action of the Ger
mans and Russians in secretly con-
cluding a treaty covering the princi-
pal and most delicate points under
consideration by the conference. Now,
however, the delegates are to go for
ward with their work. but the Ger
mans are barred from participation
in all deliberations concerning the
Russian question. This penalty was
lald down in a note of censure sent
TO the Berlin delegation yesterday af-
ter all day consideration of the stu
alton by representatives of the five
inviting powers and the little en-
tente.
Whilst the conference was sitting
and whilst Germany was represented
on the committee and sub-commis-
sion charged with the negotiations of
European peace with Russia said
the note, 'the German representa-
tives on that commission have be-
hind the backs of their colleagues.
concluded in secret treaty with
Russia on the very questions which
they had undertaken to consider in
loyal conjunction with representa-
tives OF the other nations.'' Whether
Germany will continue at the confer
ence is predetermined, but her dele
gates are engaged in drafting a re-
ply to the note of censure and it is
thought that, while protesting their
debarment from the commission dea :
ing with Russian affairs, they will be
content to remain.
Their reply is expected to make the
point that only the full conference
has power to bar them, and in this
they are supported by the neutral
nations, headed by Denmark, whose
delegates already have protested to
the conference leaders.
Furthermore, DR.. Walter Rathenau,
German foreign minister, maintains
the conversations with Russia were
not secret, as he says Prime Minister
Lloyd George of Great Britain was
notified last week through another
member of the British delegation
that the Germans could not agree to
the program contained in the report
of the allied experts, and were fore
ed to negotiate with Russia direct.
Holding Many Conferences
Genoa, April 19.-(By the Associ-
ated Press)-Dr. Walter Rathenau,
the German foreign minister, con-
fered with Prime Minister Lloyd
George of Great Britain and Foreign
Minister Chitcherin of Russia today
regarding the barring of the Ger
mans from the Russian commission
of the conference. The Germans will
probably submit a formal reply to-
night to the allied note on this sub
ject. Many other informal confer
ences were held with legal experts
of the various delegations in an eff
fort to bring out the exact scope of
the entente note.
Fix Property Status
Paris, April 19.-(By Associated
Press)-The reparations commission
is to he asked to consider whether
the Russo-German treaty signed at
Rapallo on Sunday violates the treaty
at Versailles in respect to the Ger
man-owned property in Russia. This
property, under the Versailles pact,
is pledged to the commission for pay
ment of reparations. The French
government will await the action Of
the commission before taking up the
question officially with the allies. 1t
lis held, however. in official circles
here that there is distinct violation
of the Versailles treaty, and Il is de-
clared that whatever action the Ge-
noa conference may take, the allied
powers cannot tolerate the pact.
The recourse OF the allies against
the pact is the same as that against
other violations of the peace treaty,
and the present case is regarded on
| ly as adding one more to the ether
causes of action on the German
question which the allies will take
up Immediately after the Genoa con-
ference It was announced this af-
ternoon that Premier Poincare had
requested Louis Debois, French mem
ber Of the reparations commission, tc
place offlcially before the commits
sion the question of the validity and
legality of the Russo-German pact
The premier also has asked the 9th.
er allied governments to give similar
instructions to their delegates on ths
commission.