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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 May 1922, Page 8

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NO'ITVTO RUSSIA

CONDITIONS LAID DOWN

LETTER FfiOM THE POPE,

BY tU P{.R_i . . , \TIOW-COPYEtGHT (Received .U^ 1, 10.30 a.m.) W A . . - LONDON, April 30. Ine Australian i'ress Association's Genoa correspondent states that clause or the Note to Russia providedAny balanc-: standing to the creditor tne tormer Jlussiau Governments in countries whi-u made advances to her ?£i£ cc v £ U ~5Ast'' I9U > and November, l»17, shall oe transferred to the Government which marlo the advance, and tJli, Sowt's lability reduced pro tanto. lhe remaining oisht clauses have not yet been finally settled. Clauses 3 and 4 provide for t'le Soviet's recognition of de.btf contracted by it or its predecessors vith foreign " nationals: also those incurred by the local authorities. Clause 5 insists on the recognition ot private property claims,-either by the enjoyment of similar property or compensation by bonds approved W a # mixed tribunal. Clauses 6 and 7 determine that the amounts payable by the Soviet shall be satisfied by new 5 per cent gold bonds with-W year?' currency, taxation free; also how a remission of.interest may . be dealt with if the Russian economic conditions so require. Claire 8 deal? with the creation of a mixed arbitration tribunal. : Clauses 9 and 70 deal with the adTnimscration of justice on the lines of the Allied experts' report, and the oojdi turns -upder which foreigners reside m and trade with Russia on the recommendation of the same report. Vyaiteherin's letter has not yet been - ■ -flatted to the sub-commission It H regarded as based on the • -u.;e assnmiJtiou that the peace pact ~?.s not. gone beyond the stage of recoruina: tfie opfniens of .the various naxioua it recognised. It will take a con s: : j£ra.ue time to draft, owing to the highly controversial subject of the dispiirnd eastern frontiers. ■Lne Tape's pov.eiful appeal, address«u zo Caminal Gaspari, for the fullest iss-it-auoe to Russia by the Powe.rs, has g :-..;ii » iively satisfaction in conference ■eircies. . Mr Lloyd George says the letter has :. n . Sieat encouragement to the ■•w-.istian Powers at Genoa. ■i. ■ " ROME, April 30. -iie Ussprvatoro publishes the letter :-'WI . tr'e Pope to Cardinal Gasparri. ex-;-rsSsing appreciation of the nations' .■s~^;rs ai Genoa t/bring peace to the •p..la. It will mean the salvation of ■z'l-nnnn.y if tie conference succeeds ■ifij- tayihsation will be brought to riiin it tans. t ■-M -i /Vi GENOA, April 30. «?r jAoyd Oeorge warmly applauds -.;;? u:-rms of the Pope's letter, and pys that the Holy Father speaks wi+.li i xtn-wiedpce of the conditions in West--s-rn and so clear a pronouncem favour of peace with Russia is ■s. i^roat asset to the conference.