29 APRIL 1922, Page 2

The German delegates presented their excuses for making a separate

treaty with the Bolsheviks behind the backs of the other Powers. They professed to believe that -the Allies had drafted! a- treaty with the Bolsheviks which would dis- regard " the just claims" of Germany and lead- to her being saddled with heavy indemnities for the damage that the German armies did in Russia. The Germans had therefore made haste to come to terms with Chicherin, so as to confront. the Allies with an accomplished fact. They declared that " the treaty in no wise affects the relations of other States with Russia "- a statement that is obviously very far from being true.