Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-24
GERMANS TO CONDUCT PRIVATE
 NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRENCH

Genoa, April 23 tBy the A. P.)-An- other crisis in the economic conference was passed tonight when the German del egation announced after a long session of it's delegates. and frequent communica- tions with the Russians and Italians, that the Germans would not reply to the note of the ten powers today stipulating that he signaories expressly reserve for their governments the right to declare null and void any clause in the Rcsso- German treaty which may be recognized as contrary to existing treaties"
 The Germans also decided to settle by private negotiations the differences be- | tween M. Barthou head of the French delegation, and the German chancellor, | Dr. Wirth, which arose through M. Bar thou's written charge that the Germans nad made untruthful statements.
 | Premier Facta and Foreign Minister Schanzer of the Italian delegation, are believed to have been responsible for this peaceful settlement of what threatened to be hopeless barrier to real progress in the conferences on economic and fnan- cial work.
 A member of the German delegation said that the allies had their fanfare" in today's note to satisfy the French, and that the Germans had decided they would not encourage a battle of notes but would remain silent and let the confer ence proceed with it's useful work, in the hope that the economic situation in Eu- lope might be bettered.
 Sunday has been rather bad day for the Genoa conference. Easter Sunday brought the signing of the Russo-German treaty, which created much disruption,
 and today came the note from the big and little ententes and Portugal to Ger
 many, which for the moment reopened
 the old wound that had partly healed.
 This note was written to satisfy the
 French demands for the more definite ex-
 cusion of Germany from all discussions
 relating to Russian problems. It also as-
 serts specifically that it had never been
 suggested that the London proposals af-
 forded no basis for discussion in the
 conference or that the German delegation
 was about to conclude q separate treaty
 with Russia. After making the reserva- Gon with respect to the Russo-Cerman
 treaty. it declares: "The incident may
 now be regarded as closed"
 Both Germany and Russia were very
 enwilling to concede the right of the 7 powers signatory to the Versailles treaty i to limit the treaty making powers of rtussia and Germany, and for time ! Premier Lloyd George and the presiding
 officer of the conference, Signor Facta were confronted by a serious situation.
 Premier Bratiano of Rumana, speak. ing for the little entente presented the
 text of the note to Germany in the meet
 ing Of he ten powers. He urged the nee. cssity for solidarity among the nations
 which had established peace, but strongly
 advised that the allies. who insisted up i on maintaining peace. should not work ir an exclusive spirit at Genoa, but should
 get all such annoyances as the Russo ' German treaty out of the way, so tha the real work of the conference could
 proceed.
 II Premier Lloyd George, who seconded il M. Bratiano's motion. agreed with all thu
 Rumanian premier had said. We wished
 to let the world know that the BritisI <, empire was anxious to work in close co 4 operation with the allies, but that thi . co-operatin must be for peace. In othe
 words cooperation must be to forward Y the objects of the Genoa conference. He declared that if the British publ a began to feel that cooperation with tn !, allies was tending to perpetuation o
 feuds in Europe. the English point O
 view would immediately change. He fel ] in duty bound to make it plain that tn British empire was set on and determine,
 to surmount all obstacles
 ? NJ. Barthou expressed his approval o - MT. Lloyd's words and gave assurance 0 that the French delegation was animate 0 by the same motives as the British. - The note apparently was acceptable { c all ten powers, which assisted in it's preu r arations. The ten powers also considere f the French refcsal to sit with the Rus s sian experts until an explanation was of
 fered of the Russian reply to the Lon Q don experts report on Russian recon s struction. which seemingly was in con - f1ict with NJ Chicherins note stating t y the conference what the Russians woul n be willing to accept as basis for fur - ther negotiations.
 A letter from the Russians was req y explaining that their old position ha = been superseded by NJ. Chicherin's not o and M. Barthou agreed to permit tn r. French experts to sit with the Russia j. experts this afternoon.