RUSSIA'S DEBTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 225, 17 June 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA'S DEBTS

LIABILITIES OF TSARIST REGIME

REPUDIATED

KRASSIN'S NEGOTIATIONS

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, ,Tune 15. The Cabinet, at a meeting with Eras6in, the Russian • Trade delegate, discussed the Russian Government's debts contracted up to 1917. Krassin completely denied'liability, and intimated that if tho force of circumstances compelled the acceptance of liability the Soviet Government would insist on a counter-balancing factor, and upon inheriting such rights and privileges its were given to Russia under former treaties, even if secret, including tho cession of Constantinople to Russia under the Treaty of London of i 915. Furthermore, it would write off tho charges incurred in overcoming the attacks of "the White RebeCs," if they were financed or surfported' by any foreign Power, to gether with the cost of repairing the damages inourred in these campaigns.—Reuter. OBJECTIONS TO RESUMPTION OF TRADE AN UNPROMISING OUTLOOK. London, June 15. Financiers and business Ken, representing ten nations, have concluded «. conference in Paris, urging the respective Governments not to resume trade with Russia until an international agreement has been secured, compelling the Leninites to fulfil obligations incurred during the Tsarist regime. The "Manchester Guardian" pays that one of the most ardent supporters of the reopening ,of trade now admits that Krassin's outlook is unpromising. It asserts that the British Government is really attempting to compete a de facto peace, while it is unwilling to resume diplomatic relatione j but : Krassin has not yet secured satisfactory assurances from Moscow. , Meanwhile British firms are pressing for tho restoration of their private property in Russia, tmd their insistence may contribute to the wrecking of negotiations.—lAns.-N.Z. Cable Assn.