PROBLEM OF RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1922, Page 5

PROBLEM OF RUSSIA.

POWERS FAIL TO AGREE. HAGUE MEETING ENDS. NOTHING ACHIEVED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 21, 8.15 p.m. ! The Hague, July 20. The conference has ended. A resolution was adopted recommending all the represented Governments not to assist their nationals in an attempt to acquire confiscated property in Russia formerly belonging to other foreigh nationals. The resolution requests that no decision on the subject shall be reached except jointly.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received July 21, 8.55 p.m. London, July 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Hague correspondent states that no information is forthcoming regarding the sudden decision to end the conference or the extraordinary satisfaction and optimism displayed by delegates, who strenuously denied that any secret agreement had been made with the Russians, hut in the same breath claimed that The Hague gathering achieved what no conference had accomplished since the, first negotiations with the Soviet. Outsiders point out, moreover, that the published reports disclose no single achievement. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AMERICAN INTERFERENCE. DEPRECATED BY GOVERNMENT. Received July 21, 9.40 p.m. Washington, July 20. The State Department announces that American citizens entering into arrangements with Soviet Russia or prejudicing or jeopardising the vested rights of citizens of other countries in Russia, do so without the sanction or support of the United States Government. The matter was made clear to The Hague Conference by the United States Charge d’Affaires at The Hague on July 15. The Government is pleased with the Powers’ action at The Hague to-day along the same lines, as the United States would not like trt the properties of any of its nationals in Russia, which had been confiscated by the Soviet, traded away to nationals of other countries, and therefore it is willing to give support to other nations following the same policy. The failure of The Hague Conference is not surprising to the Administration here. It was expected from the start, since it was felt the Bolsheviks were not prepared to enter any conference in the proper spirit of recognition of the rights of other Powers.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.