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Show JlSSIA REPLIES TO PROPOSALS OF ALLIES Powers Scan Note For Verdict Upon Foreigners9 Rights GENOA, May ll.(By the Associated Press.) Russia s reply to the allied memorandum, made public this evening, declares the financial fi-nancial differences between the powers and Russia require deeper study and it suggests the appointment of a mixed committee of experts ex-perts by the economic conference to consider these questions. The reply rejects the mixed tribunal system proposed by the allies al-lies for settlement of the claims of foreigners. This system, it says, ia irreconcilable with the communistic system. The reply maintains that the preferential rights Russia, proposes to grant former proprietors pro-prietors will make it possible for them to participate in Russian reconstruction without the mixed tribunals ! M Tcliltchorln nuln.l .. . . ; of his good will and his desire to co-I co-I operate with the other delegations After the Russian foreign minister bad left Signor Bchanser read the note which consists of fifteen pages. The first part of the note is argu-! argu-! mentive. but the second half was re-! re-! ported lo be constructive, making proposals pro-posals dealing with financial questions. ques-tions. The note, it was stated, suggest , th-- appointment of a new special commission com-mission by the conference to continue con-tinue the negotiations after the close of the Genoa meetings. it Is believed that the allies will meet either tonight or tomorrow j morning to discuss Ihe reply. GENOA IN" IGNORANCE, j The substanco of the preamble and many clauses of the reply here be- came public, but Genoa still was in Ignorance as to the Soviet govern-I govern-I ment's last word on what It would do about tho foreign property natb-nal- ir.ed In Russia. That la tho Question on which Franco and Belgium havi spilt with the rest of the powers Many rumors concerning Russia's decision on this point are In circulation. circula-tion. That part of the reply which bears' on tho restoration of propel tj has been drafted and redrafted by the Russians. It underwept many changes yesterday after appeals had been made to M T hiu herln. the Soviet foreign minister, by Signor Schanzer and othor leaders to soften It. PAR I 1 1 1 V l) IRE. There is a general feeling that the Russians have gone as far as they dare in modifying their response on Ibis vital question. The Russian reply has much In it that is especially for the benefit of the communists in Russia ami throughout the world, and does n..t lose the opportunity to make a plea for disarmament But the mass of verbiage on general political questions Is of far less importance than the jlilude of the Soviel government lo-j lo-j wards foreigners' property In Russia ! decision of which may make or break thi i onferi nee British quarters quoted Prima Minister Min-ister Lloyd George as dei hiring this forenoon that ha had nol the least ld a regarding the trend of the important portions of the Russian document. POWERS i LLM OBSTINATE, Extracts from the text of the preamble pre-amble to the reply show that it Strongly Strong-ly stigmatises tho obstinacy of cer-tain cer-tain powers In excluding Russia from international political and economic life and refusing her equality of treatment treat-ment with the only object, it is al- leged. the satisfaction Of their financial finan-cial claims Aft |