May 9.
To bring within the compass of a single article all the story of the Genoa Conference, which for a month past has filled columns of every paper, is impossible in the space at command. But so confusing have the reports been, so many the issues to be followed and so changeful the news of each, that a broad outline of events showing the point now reached may be acceptable to many readers. The conference was opened by Signor Facta, the Italian Premier, on April 10 amid general benedict tions and good wishes, which, however, did not prevent the Russian and French delegates from very nearly coming to blows only a day later. The quarrel. Was patched up and the Conference resolved itself into five commissions to consider and report on questions of currency, exchanges, transport, credit and the like. The conference was intended to be strictly economic in scope, politics being ruled out and the whole based on the Cannes resolutions, which may be summarized as follows (1) That the nations agree not to repudiate their debts; (2) that no country would wage war on another's' institutions; (3) that no nation would engage in aggressive operations against another's territory; (4) equal justice to foreigners in courts of law.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.