AT THE HAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1922, Page 6

AT THE HAGUE

PROPERTY IN RUSSIA UNSATISFACTORY POSITION PLAIN SPEAKING TO SOVIET DELEGATES. (lIMTIB MUSS ASSOCIATION.—COHM'J. T.) (MUTSIt'S TELEGRAM.) (Received July 12, 1 p.m.) THE HAGUE, 10th July. The week opens with an unsatisfactory outlook. The principal delegates spent the week-end in examining the list of properties which tho Russians are prepared to restore. They are agreed that the list is unsatisfactory, as it includes only a. tenth . of. the total. It is now explained that Krassin's statement, that 90 per cent, of the properties of foreigners will bo eventually returned, is conditional on the conclusion of an agreement with the Soviet regarding credits, and is dependent on direct individual negotiations between tlie owners and the Soviet. This is regarded as unacceptable, as it simply means that the owners will be left to the tender mercies of the Soviet. There was much plain speaking at the meeting of the Credits Sub-Commission. The Russians finally, in reply to a direct question, insisted that they wanted credits granted to the Russian State, and not to individuals. They refused to recognise the guarantees inscribed on the face of bonds issued ,by the Russian Governments.