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Show : ' Ponderous Sums Demanded By Bolshevik! Tire Imaginations MOSCOW, Jan. 23. (By tho Asso-1 elated Press.! P.olshelk delegates dele-gates to the Genoa conference will present reparations claims there against various European powers and the United States If these claims ar ; I made in terms of bolshevik rubles, Inew names for large amounts may be I ineeessary. for the familiar terms of the decimal system will not cover the I 9tagpering sums claimed by these I countries, which issue hills for onei hundred million rubles. Leonide Krassln, Maxim Litvlnoff.l M. RakOWSky, and scores of other . ommunlst leaders who probably will go to Genoa. JugKle figures with the1 hame indifference that a professional strong n.an shows while tossing 'weights about a siage The Versailles conference mustered' no such brigade of experts as the .Moscow government called into service ser-vice months ago and has been train-, tnir for the communist attack on capitalistic cap-italistic fortresses at Genoa Everj possible L.riiid of political, social, historical his-torical and economic export has been: drafted, and Russia has a Variety of, them which has never tn-en dreamed of b the western world Foreign debts, owed by Russia and h. claims of other governments against the Soviet regime will bo nothing noth-ing when compared with the amounts that Moscow has chalked up iigain.st England France and America The Alabama claims, upon which the t r,ild Slates was BUCCSSSful after the Civil War. form the chief prece- dent upon which the BolsheUk gov-, eminent v. Ill present Its claims Ream of documents will be presented to show responsibility of the, groat pow-ars pow-ars toi the damage suffered by Russia Rus-sia as a result of the Czeoho-Slova k advance in Siberia, Admiral Kolchak'a ill-fated movement, the Archangel expedition ex-pedition General Denikin's sweep northward from the Caucasus. Gonoral Baron Wrangel B Crimean expedition General Cdcnltch's fiasco In tho Haltlo stales, Simon Petlura's activities III Ukraine and hundreds of smaller expeditions ex-peditions not reported to the western world A Washington im.iKination cannot comprehend the figures reported by Bolshevik money it seems probable Moscow will make her claims in gold i ubles. I |