GENOA CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1922, Page 5

GENOA CONFERENCE.

ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES. SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS TO SAFEGUARD RUSSIANS. By Telegraph,—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received April 7, 8.10 p.m. Rome, April 6. The Polish, Finnish, Belgian, Russian and a portion of the British delegation have reached Genoa. The Russians travelled in a special train. Immense precautions were taken to protect them from attempts by their exiled and ruined countrymen. Russian detectives preceded the delegates at all stations and tunnels, and their hotel is specially guarded. Abdul Hamid lad, an anti-British propagandist, and self-styled president of the oppressed Moslem races, has .arrived, and intends to demand the absoute independence of (Egypt. It is reported he has secured Bolshevik support to a secret pact signed at Berlin. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. POSITION OF AMERICA. Washington, April 6. Mr. C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, informed the Ambassador-in-Chief inItaly that the State Department expected to be kept advised of the progress of the (xenoa Conference, but left it to Mr. Childs’ discretion whether he attended at Genoa or not. , Mr. Hughes stated that the United States was not appointing any official or unofficial representative, only observers. THE INFLUENCE OF FRANCE. Paris, April G. It is generally expected that the main purpose of Mr. Lloyd George’s visit to M. Poincare to-morrow is to induce the latter to attend the Genoa Conference in person. M. Poincare impressed upon the French delegation that the decisions can only be made by the French Government at Paris, not at Genoa, and that discussion should be confined to the study of economic, not political questions.