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Show RUSSIAN REPLY GIVENjTAL'IANS RE8PON8E TO ALLIED MEMORAN DUM SAID TO HAVE BEEN DRAFTED AS DICTATED Contains Much That Is Especially For the Benefit of Communists In Russia and Throughout the Whole World Gonon.Forolgn MInistor Tchltch orln of soviet Russia personally handed hand-ed tho Russian roply to tho nlllod memorandum Thursdny to Forojgn Minister Schnnzer of Italy, In tho lnt tor's room at tho Palazzo Roalo. Tho only othor person present wns Francesco Fran-cesco Glannlnl, tho Italian financial oxperL A friendly conversation of forty-five minutes followed In which M. Tchltch-orln Tchltch-orln strossod tho fact tno answor had boon prepared under direction Instructions Instruc-tions from Moscow. M. Tchltchorln repentod assurances of his good will nnd doslro to co operate with tho other delegations. After tho Russian forolgn minister had loft, Slgnor Schnnzer road tho noto, which consists of fifteen pages. Thoro Is a genoral feeling thnt the Russians hnvo gono as fnr as they daro In modifying tholr response on this vltnl question. Tho ltusslnn reply naturally "" has much In It thnt ls especially for .tho benefit of tho communists In Rsstn and throughout the world, nnd does not lose tho opportunity to mnko a plea for disarmament. Rut Uio nines of verbngo on genornl political questions ques-tions Is of fnr less Importance than tho attltudo of tho soviet govornmont townrds foreigners' property In Russia Rus-sia doclslon of which may mnko or break the conferenco. Lnto In tho morning, It wns an-nouscod an-nouscod that the reply of the Russians Rus-sians would not be delivered boforo 4 p. m. Rrltlsh quarters quotod Prlmo MInistor MIn-istor Lloyd George as declaring this forenoon thnt ho had not tho least Idoa regarding tho trend of the essential essen-tial portions of tho Russian document. Kxtracts from tho text of tho pre-nmhlo pre-nmhlo to the roply show thnt It strongly stigmatizes tho obstlnucy of certain powers In excluding Russia from International political and economic econ-omic life nnd rofuslng her equnllty of treatment with the .only objoct, It is alleged, tho satisfaction of tholr financial finan-cial claims. "When ono considers," says the tor "whnt this nttltudo hns cost tho world, tho United Stntes, which Inaugurated It, nnd ItusKln, which hns sufforod Its trnglc consequences In tho pnot flvo years, it Is difficult to bollove that only the IntorestH of tho Rusnlan bondholders bond-holders nnd former proprietors of nn tlonnllzed properties aro being considered. con-sidered. Tho Incidents of tho lust few dnys, espoclnlly In connection with the restitution of private property, clearly show that political considerations considera-tions linvo boon grafted upon a purely mnterlnl question. |