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Show RUSSIANS SEEK ANOTHER CHANGE CONFERENCE MEMBERS BELIEVE THE WAY IS PAVED FOR NEW PROPOSAL Plan I Suggested That Claim Settled Privately; Bolshevik Attitude Defined; To Mak. Payments Soon The Hague While the allied and neutral delegates devoted the SnMeth to driving golf balls around the canals can-als and sand dunes, the Russians pot their heads together and framed a latter to M. Patyn, president of the non-Russian commission, la an effort to resurrect the conference, which, though officially dead, Is disturbing its heirs and embalmers by winking Its. eyes and kicking In its coffin, and showing other signs of life. The tetter again defines the Bolshevik Bolshe-vik attitude in a way calculated to make the Russian peasant on one band think they are standing pat, end the allied and neural delegates believe be-lieve that M. Litvlnoff is receding oa every point responsible for the rapture. rap-ture. The letter, which will be forwarded, for-warded, comes as an answer to a letter let-ter from M. Patyn informing it Lit-vinoff Lit-vinoff that the debts sub-commlssfon sees no further use for continuing negotiations, ne-gotiations, but announces that it is not too late yet for the Russians to put forward new proposals. The Russian's letter as outlined by the reds begins by asking the alllw and neutrals to state the total amount of compensation desired for nationalized national-ized properties, which they agree to pay as far as possible. Hie Russians demanded to know the extent f claims before, and now they say in verbal propaganda that the allies and neutrals fear an answer because the amount Is so staggering, exceeding the German reparations figures, that even America would see the necessity of slashing the figures from DO to 75 per cent The letter avoids using the word credit, but it again asserts that Russia's Rus-sia's ability to meet Its obligations depends de-pends upon help received from oat-side oat-side countries. It asks that If the countries are willing to help in reconstruction, recon-struction, how far are they prepared to go to this end. It carefully explains ex-plains the reason for desiring to know the extent of claims against Ruasla iS so that the Bolshevik con arrange a system for payment. A restitution of property in many cases Is impossible, even If Russia if willing, it is asserted. A recommendation Is made that the Russians be permitted to settle private pri-vate claims with the private holders, agreeing to consider the claimant according ac-cording to category instead of individually. indi-vidually. The Bolshevik! promise that 30 pe-r cent of the claims oan be settled set-tled privately to the satisfaction ! private holders, agreeing to arbitrate the other 10 per cent which cannot be settled otherwise. |