REPARATIONS QUESTIONS.

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REPARATIONS QUESTIONS.

tJIiU-tMANY' AND PEACE PACT V

* RUSSIAN DEBTS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT PARIS., April 28. ,M. Poiucare definitely states that he fcaniiot accept the sugg&'tion that repa- : Nations. questions should be examined? "fundamentally at Gksaoa by an inter-; -Allied commission, -«11 the more so be-' Tawse the ivepara*ions Commission is with the Snatter, and it would :»oi he possible to accuse Germany of twisting the treaty after May 31. His •ecejtfance would only have the effect, of ! prejudicing the work of the commission,' vhich alone can consider the necessary .Lseasure. , GENOA, Aprils, j It is stated that if M. Poincare refuses to come to Genoa the Allies are jprepared to meet without him. M. iiathenau declares that Germany will enter the pact of peace. It is ' authoritatively stated that Mr Lloyd <*eorge is determined to open all the •questions of reparations at a meeting of "the Versailles signatories. I -Apropos of the Russian attitude, M. "Tchitcherin states that it is impossible "for Russia to surrender on the question fof the payment of private debts .when"the bourgeois Governments not partici-' jw_ting in the conference are not dis-; . posed to concede similarly. Hence the failure of the conference seems inevitable. It is being stated that there is a possibility that the Russians will meet the Italian views and submit the Allies' demands to Russian public opinion, returning for another conference • in two oiHhree months. * PARIS, April 28. | Cabinet has telegraphed to M. Barthou, agreeing with the delegation's attitude, and instructing them to stand l>y the Cannes resolution and closely follow M. Poincare's policy toward the Soviet." I Advices from, Genoa state that the "Russian delegation had dinner with the tJerman delegates. The tenor of the speeches has not transpired. Numbers of police were present. !