NO MONEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1922, Page 5

NO MONEY.

„ PLIGHT OF, RUSSIA. REDUCED TO PLUNDER. NO ALLIED LOANS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 25, 5.5 p.m. London, April 24. The Times’ special representative at the Genoa Conference says that when the expert commission on Russian affairs met to-day it was expected that the Russians would submit counter-proposals to the report of the London Conference, but they occupied a whole hour in at'empting to extract a promise of financial assistance from the Allies before proceeding to discussions. They disclosed themselves at the end of their financial tether, being reduced at present to plundering churches in a desperate endeavor to carry on until able to wheedle or bully the Allies into giving them the means to eke out a penurious existence a little longer. Sir L. Worthington Evans (Britain), who is firmly handling the discussions, made it clear that Government loans cannot be granted and that private capitalists are not likely to rush in where Germans still fear to tread. Thus the Bolshevik prospects are not rosy.—Times Service.