ALLIES FACE BANKRUPTCY IN POLICY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 3

ALLIES FACE BANKRUPTCY IN POLICY.

j WAITING FOR NIEXT MOVE. (United Service 1 PARIS, February 16. The Allies .are face to face with bankruptcy m the Russian policy. They decided yesterday to renew the invitation to all the Russian Governments to meet and negotiate, but with a time limit of about a week m which replies must be made. The meeting place is not material, but it ia believed that the Prinkipo conference has been discarded. It has become the name of em'barassing memories. The Allies could compel recalcitrant Russian Governments to come, to heel by .withdrawing their armies. This may be the next move, but it is being opposed a.s meaning a triumph for the .. Soviets, j (The' Times.) HELSINGFORS, February 16. The Bolshevik leaders continue to quarrel violently with reference to the acceptance of the invitation to the Prinj kipo conference. , i Lenin at the last meeting of the Moscow Soviet openly warned them that tlie commission was going to smash unless I j fresh methods were adopted. He said : I "We shall lose nothing by attending the conference." [Prinkipo is the largest of the beauti- ! ful group of nine islets, named Prince's I Islands, near the eastern end of the Sea of Marmora.]