NO TREATY WITH RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 May 1922, Page 5

NO TREATY WITH RUSSIA.

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT TOKIO, May 13. i The Foreign Office announces that Japan has no intention of making a separate treaty with Russia, but will abide by the result of the Genoa Conference. I '■ i after all a matter of procedure in regard to the.goal they wished to attain. It would be a terrible disillusionment if the conference broke on a flimsy issue - like this, and he appealed to M. Barthou to reconsider his view. Mr Lloyd George said they should agree now upon the place and date of the meeting of the Russian Commission. He emphasised the great importance of coming to an agreement at Genoa, because it was obvious that if the Powers started making separate agreements great troubles might arise. The Polish delegate said Poland had a separate agreement with Russia, but was anxious to have a general agreement. M. Jasper (Belgium) said Belgium also wanted a settlement at Genoa, and he would be sorry if Belgium came to be regarded as interfering with, it. Sign or Schanzer said Italy already had a commercial agreement with Russia, which was still unsigned. They should fix the period in which the commission should report. He suggested three months, The commission adjourned for a few hours to see whether better counsels would prevail. GENOA, May 14. "When the sub-commission resumed it was announced that the conversations between Mr Lloyd George and M. Barthou had progressed satisfactorily, and a compromise is likely. They meet again to-morrow to continue the conversations, j Representatives of the other Powers expressed opinions on the truce. Mr t Ishii (JapanX regarded the conference's work as much too important to be t lightly abandoned; the whole world regarded an understanding as most important. He approved of the British ! proposals. 1 Switzerland was enthusiastic over the truce proposals. > I M. Barthou said he hoped an agree- ' ment was in sight.' He hoped they would settle the question whether the commission would be mixed or otherwise. On the question of a pact both England and France desired to learn the views of other countries.