RUSH TO RUSSIA

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 3

RUSH TO RUSSIA

GAME OF GRAB AND GAIN. LATEST TIP FROM GENOA. ißy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.(Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association. (United Service). (Received May 17, 1 p.m.) London, May 16. ' The Daily Mail’s Genoa correspondent says the sub-commission has decided that a pledge is required from the States to bo represented at the Hague Conference not to conclude arrangements with Russia during the life of the conference. This shall not apply to treaties already negotiating, but only forbids now treaties. This follows oil the Japanese official confirmation that they are negotiating for a separate treaty with Moscow, including as well as the economic clauses a political clause regarding the evacuation of Siberia. Italy, Sweden, and Czccho-Slovakia are also about to _ conclude economic treaties with Russia. The correspondent adds that everybody believes that immediately the Genoa Conference ends there will be to Klondike-like gold rush of big commercial interests to secure concessions from the-Moscow Government. Mr Lloyd George, when asked if there was anything in the pledges made by the nations attending the Hague Conference to prevent this, replied : “No power on earth can prevent negotiations with private persons.”