Evening star., 1922-01-23
BO[SHEV|KS TO ASK
GIGANTIC SUMS Of
EUROPEANSANDU.S.
Reparations Claims, Beggar-
ing Description to Be Pre-
sented at Genoa.
EXPERTS PLAN ATTACK
ON "CAPITALIsT"' FORCES

| UN CAfIIAlISI fUhCES
Great Powers Blamed for Counter
Revolutionary Attacks Against
Moscow Regime.
| By the Associa ted Press.
MOSCOW, January 23.-Bolshevik
delegates to the Genoa conference
will present reparation claims there
against various European powers and
the United States. If these claims are
made In terms of bolshevik rubles,
new names for large amounts may be
necessary, for the familiar terms of
the decimal system will not cover the
staggering sums claimed by this
codAtry, which issues single bills for
one hundred million rubles, and dis
cusses deficits of trillions of rubles
as mere bagatelles.
! Leonid krassin, Maxim Litvinoff, NJ.
Rakawsky and scores of other com
muIist leaders. who probably will go
to Genoa. juggle figures with the
same Indifference that a professional
strong man shows while tossing
weights about stage.
The Versailles conference mustered
no such brigades of experts as the
\ MOSCOW government called into serv-
ice months ago. and has been training
for the communist attack upon cap
italistic fortresses at Genoa. Every
possible brand Of political, social. his
! torical and economic expert has been
drafted. and Russia has a variety of
them which has never been dreamed
of by the western world.
Base Claims ON Revolt Damage.
Foreign debts owed by Russia and
the claims of other governments
against the soviet regime will be- as
nothing when compared with the
amounts that Moscow has chalked up
against England, France and Ameri-
ca. The Alabama claims. upon which
the United States was successful aft
er the civil war. form the chief prsce-
| dent upon which the bolshevik gov
ernment will present Its claims.
Reams of documents will be present.
| ed to show the responsibility of the
great powers for the damage suf-
Tered BY Russia as result OF the
l u.
! Admiral -Kolchak's Hl-fated move
ment. the Archangel expedition. GEN
Denikine's sweep northward from the
Caucasus, Gen. Baron Wrangefs Cri-
| mean expedition. Gen. Yudenitch's
fasco in the Baltic states, Simon Pet
lura's activities in Ukraine, and hun
| dreds of small expeditions not re-
| ported to the western world
Demands resulting from the upris-
ing In karelia will be charged to
the joint account Of Finland and the
| entente powers. Japan will be deb
ited for the white Russian movement
now proceeding against the far east
ern republic. Gen Makno and scores
| of other bandit leaders in Ukraine
will be dragged into the accounting
| with Poland and France. Gen. Sem
ienoff and Gen. Baron nUngern-Sternberg.
| leaders in fighting that has taken
place In the far east, will be revived,
with other forgotten leaders number
ing in the hundreds.
Figured IN .sHated Currency.
AS western Imagination cannot COM
| prehend the figures represented by
bolshevik money. 1t seems probable
Moscow will make her claims in gold
| rubles-the hated currency upon
which the communist government
is passing its budget IN the effort to re-
turn to the old economic policy.
At first there was disposition to
| make claims for all damage done to
! property in the various movements
against the soviet government as well
as for lives sacrificed and indirect
| damage to business, the prestige of
| the government losses resulting from
| the blockade. There was a report at
| one time that the total amounts to
| nearly one hundred billion gold
! rubles, but there are Indications that
| another policy may be followed be-
| cause of the difficulties always met in
| are made to prove indirect damages.
| At any rate. the boishevik- bill
| against the outside world will doubt
| less far overbalance all possible
| claims the outside powers may pre-
| sent on behalf Of their governments.
| corporations and individuals.
Explains Soviet Attitude.
George Chitcherin. the bolshevik
foreign minister. has received the for
eign newspaper correspondents and
explained to them the attitude Of the
soviet government toward the ap-
| preaching economic conference at
Genoa. He expressed satisfaction
| that the government had been able
to let down the barriers and welcome
foreign newspapermen. He was espe-
cially~ desirous, he declared, OF re-
! futing statements made in the French
press that the soviet government was
roine to Genoa with the purpose of
inding a large tribune for the dissem-
| mination of propaganda having In
view world revolution.
I'VE are going to Genoa, or London,
| as may be arranged" said NJ. Glitch
| erin, neither as conquered nor as
conouering. We shall fight, but our
6rht will be for commercial develop
ment-not for revolution. We are go
| ing to the conference to fight as
equals with the other powers, as the
representatives of the proletarian
| government, Offering the capitalistic
governments an opportunity for de-
yeloping the great resources Of RUS
sia In such q way as to do justice to
the Russian proletar1at, as well as
J to the foreign capitalists"
M. Chitcherin said world equilibrium
| may be restored onlyethrough the
| RUSSIAN workman's government reach
ing an agreement with capitalism,
| and that the Genoa conference was
] comnarable to the Westphaltan con-
Ference, when devastated Germany
was able to reconstruct herself
through the ending of religious wars,
| which might be compared to the wars
nroIetarian Russia had been forced to
fSrht aEainAt capitalistic states, The
/ Russian government had requested a.
statement Of the agenda proposed for
the Genoa conference, he said, and
until this was available 1t was Inn