AT THE HAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1922, Page 5

AT THE HAGUE.

, THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM. LITTLE PROGRESS MADE. AVERTING A RUPTURE, B> Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright* Received July 12, 5.5 p.m* The Hague, July 11. Apart from Krasain’s statement every effort to elicit anything definite from the Soviet or to pin them down to any clear understanding has failed, nor can the information supplied to the nonRussian commission be relied upon. The attitude of the Russians is daily becoming increasingly irreconcilable and the recent adjournments are apparently the only alternative to open rupture. M. Litvinoff has been particularly shifty in his replies to various questions regarding credits.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The Hague, July 10. The week opens with an unsatisfactory outlook. The principal delegates spent the week-end examining the list of properties which the Russians are prepared to restore. Delegates agreed that the list was unsatisfactory, including only 10 per cent, of the total. It now explained that Krassin’s statement that 90 per cent, of the properties of foreigners would be eventually returned is conditional on the conclusion of an agreement with the Soviet regarding credits and dependent on direct individual negotiations between the owners and the Soviet. This is regarded as unacceptable, simply meaning that the owners will be left to the tender mercies of the Soviet. There was much plain speaking at the meeting of the Credits Sub-commission. The Russians, in the final reply to a direct question, insisted that they wanted credits granted to the Russian State, not to individuals, and refused to recognise the guarantees inscribed on tlte face of the bonds issued by the Russian Government.