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Show GERMANS AND BOLSHEVIKI REPLY I : JL. JL. jl M JtL. JL. A. JL. A i f TEUTONS DENY TREACHERY IN SIGNING PACT Russians Willing to Pay Debts If Given Help By Nations USE TJ. S. AS EXAMPLE Richard Washburn Child Permitted to Attend Confab Sessions GENOA. April 21 i By the Asoci-ated Asoci-ated Press.i Both the Germans and Russians today Submitted their re-pl.e re-pl.e to the allies' demands The Ger-man Ger-man rt ply accepts the allied proposal thtk the Germans take no further part in the negotiation!" between the allies and the Russians, but the reply does not modlfv ihc effectiveness of the Kusso-German treaty. The Russian reply accepts the al-( n... i nMnnkal for the nameiit of Kus- si. i b debt? due to foreigners and tho restoration of German property nn-tiOXftlized nn-tiOXftlized by Russia. In case the soviet : regime is granted full recognition bv the allied governments and is given adequate finance assistance. The object of the two replies is to continue the German and Russian participation par-ticipation In the, work hero, and thus to bridue over the crisis which rc-I rc-I cenily threatened to disrupt the con-i con-i feicncc. DEM IND6 VeCEPTEn While the soviet reply accepts prac-i prac-i ill all the allied demands, tho details de-tails of working out the plan and the amount tin Russians may expert in bian- to restore their country admitted admit-ted thev nrsint r. difficult problem Without ,ahy certainty that it can be (Alved and thus complete the prelim Inaries for Russian recognition. The BUb-commlssion of ten member-' on Russian affairs. Germany now bc-Ing bc-Ing eliminated, met the Russian delegates del-egates this afternoon and informed them thut their reply was satisfactory as u bash: for disQussJion. (,M I SI l) OP DEBTS I With respect to the question of Rus sian debts due to foreigners and the I riphts of foreigners for the return of their property or comiensatlon for damage, difficulty arises In reconciling the resolution of the Cannes supremo council providlnp for non-Lnterfe n n. i in the sovereignty of an stnLo, with the allied project of restitution or compensation com-pensation for property Allied spokes-men spokes-men today pointed out that everything was nationalized in Russia and therefore there-fore it appeared that property could not be restored in free hold. The Russians contended in their reply re-ply thui without violating their International Inter-national sovereignty they could not restore re-store ownership of property to foreipn natiotiil In support of their argument argu-ment they cited the abolition of sbiv cry In the United States the American prohibition law and certain rases that have arisen in the British empire. I DOW I ASI.S The committee of seven experts will endeavor to solve this difficulty by gettlntr down to practical cases The soviet delegates accept compensation compen-sation in principle The allies believe the- Russian counter coun-ter olalrns for damages due to Inter-en' Inter-en' ions will disappear from the discussions dis-cussions The conference has yet to take up the important problem of Russian ourts and Judicial puarantces. In! the end It is hoped to make a general, treaty with Russia, of which rocog-i nlllon of the soviet. government would! be a feature. The German note is longer than! that from the allies and begins by acknowledging ac-knowledging "with painful surprise" the protest received, which is considered consid-ered undeserved The note then repeats re-peats what Tr Rathaneau, German1 foreipn minister, has staled on several Occasions that negotiations for the conclusion of the Rus.so-Geniian treaty! had begun long ago, were known to? have been in progress by all the Ku ' ropean gosernment-- and Lad lately j been suspended out of deference to the remferenee rim n is w ELOOME An Knplish spokesman for the Brit-' ish delegation to the economic confer-ence confer-ence said today there was no objee--' lion to Richard Washburn 'h'.ld American ainbassado- io Italy, belnp. .resent at sessions of ihe commission on Russian affair to obtain information informa-tion for the Unites Slutes government, j |