GENOA CONFERENCE.

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1922, Page 5

GENOA CONFERENCE.

TWO OPPOSING COMMISSIONS. ALL EYES OX RT’SSTA. [A. and N. Z. Cable Association] GENOA, May 14. When the Sub ('ommission resumed, it was announced that ihe conversation? l>etwem Mr Lloyd George : ml M. Bar thou had progressed satisfactorily, and a compromise was likely. They meet again tomorrow to continue the convcrRepresentatives of other Powers expressed their opinions on the truce. Count Ishii regarded the conference’s work a*, much too important to be lightly abandoned. The whole world regarded an understanding as most important. He : pproved of the British proposals. Switzerland was enthusiastic over the truce proposal. M. Barthou said that he hoped an agreement was in sight. He hoped they would settle the question whether the commission should be mixed or otherwise. On the (piestion of the peace pact, both England and France desired to learn the views of other countries. LONDON', May 14. The Australian Press Association’s Genoa correspondent says: Only Mr Lloyd George could have tided the conference over the usual week-end crises, in face of France’s positive determination not io sit with the Russians. Fiance, ever since the first invitation to meet the Bolsheviks at Prineipo in 1919, has consistently refused to have anything to do with them. There have been rumours as to a compromise, which Mr Lloyd George effected with M. Barthou, but the most reasonable assumption is he agreed that two commissions should he formed, one consisting of Russians, and the other of Allies and neutrals. This is a somewhat transparent, device to save France's amour propre but such commissions must actually sit together if any sm-i ess is to be obtained. It is quite impossible for both commissions Io work by exchanging note-;. The next interesting point is what the Russans think of both schemes. LONDON, May 14. The “Evening News’s” Genoa correspondent says: A grotesque conference side show is the motley array of nevoys, grandiloquently self-styled “The League of Oppressed Nations of Ihe East,” comprising Syrians, Mesopotamians, Persians, Bokharans and Indians. In the intervals of conspiring with and against each other, they flock to the largest and most dubious dance resort in Genoa. The notorious Enver Pasha is the prime instigator of this i gathering, whose declared aim is to I examine Oriental problems with reference to Europe. His spokesmen are Bekir and Sami, whom ihe Angora Government expelled, also General Hakici Pasha Mustapha himself sent a delegate, Dj-ellallikin, from Angora, but he does not speak to Bekir or Lakka. The first formal act of the conference was to send a Noto to the President of the Genoa Conference protesting against British control of the Suez Canal and the Soudan. The Note was naturally ignored. JAPAN’S ATTITUDE. TOK 10, May 13. The Foreign Office announces that Ta pan has no intention of making’ a separate treaty with Russia, but will ibide by the result of the Genoa Conference.