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On Good Friday and Saturday, it is reported, the Bolsheviks

had the audacity to put forward counterclaims for £5,000,000,000, on the theory that all the opposition to their despotic rule had come from the Allies and not from the saner elements of Russia. Mr. Lloyd George is said to have rejected this impudent proposal with some warmth, though he must have known that Chicherin and his colleagues were certain to repeat the farcical tactics of the Brest-Litovsk Conference. He gave them a few days' grace in order to obtain a definite reply from Moscow. The tacit understanding that, in attending at Genoa, the

Bolsheviks had agreed to recognize Russia's debts was seen, however, to have been an illusion.

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