SOVIET AND FRANCE.
FOUR FREE PORTS OFFERED.
BASES FOR FOREIGN TRADE.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 6.15 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post states that secret pourparlers art' proceeding between the French Government and M. Krassin relating to tho guarantees France intends to demand before she is willing to confer with tho Soviet delegates at Genoa. It is understood that the Soviet offered an important provisional undertaking to place Odessa, Sebastopol, Petrograd, and Novorossiysk under a special regime as free porta enabling foreigners to form secure bases and assemble materials preparatory to reorganising transports. The French interpret German annoyance over a possible Franco-Russian rapprochement as indicating that Germany was feeling confident of British support and hoped to find France isolated ait Genoa, but she now realises this is not likely.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9
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