THE GENOA CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1922, Page 5

THE GENOA CONFERENCE.

POSITION OF RUSSIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlgtr. London, Feb. 13. In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloya George, replying to a question, said Russia had accepted the invitation to the Genoa Conference without any qualification regarding the terms, on which she would be admitted.—Au».N.Z. Cable Assn. A POSTPONEMENT WANTED. Rome, Feb. 13. The Czecho-Slovakian Minister states that he has handed a Note to the Foreign Office asking for three weeks’ postponement of the Genoa Conference. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS. Paris, Feb. 14. The official note to Britain formally accepting the principle of summoning a committee of experts to prepare for the Genoa Conference suggests that Lhe Little Entente Powers and Poland should participate in the experts’ committee. / The Matin’s Rome correspondent states that Italy will not request a postponement of the Genoa Conference. TACTICS OF THE SOVIET Received Feb. 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 14. The Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent states that advices from Riga assert the Soviet’s tactics at Genoa will be in the direction of causing disagreements between the other Powers. The Bolsheviks believe there is a great chance of this, as Russia has important joint interests with Germany.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NO ACTION BY AMERICA. Received Feb. 15, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 14. It is declared authoritatively at White House that the American Government finds it impossible at the present time to reach a decision regarding participation in the Genoa Conference.