That was the significance of yesterday's
meeting."
Negotiations between Fnm ?< and Ger
many concerning the tranrf^r of funds
collected for the purpose of paying dis
ability and old age Insurance to resi
dents of Al.sace and Lorraine have
failed, and France, it is declared, is pre
pared to ask that Article 77 of the Ver
satile* Treaty be enforced. Thlw article
provides that the German Government
shall undertake to pay ever to the
French Government a proportion of all
reserves accumulated by tl>" empire or
by puhllc or private bodi -s dependent
upon it for the purposes of disability
and old age insurance.
trotzkyYhrea tens
TO RAZE KRONSTADT
Will Send Third and Final
Ultimatum To-day
Hu thr .1 sunt iatrd Press,
Lonpon, March 15.?The Russian So
viet War Minister, Leon Trotzky, has
twice delivered an ultimatum to Kron
stadt and will deliver ?i final ultimatum
to-morrow, according to Information re
ceived by the Riga correspondent of ths
London Times from M. Joffe, head of tho
Russian peace mission In Riga, who has
been so Informed by the Russian For
eign Minister. M. Tchitcherin.
Trotsky's final ultimatum will de
clare: "If the town remains obdurate
it will be stormed and razed."
American Red Cross food supplies
from Vlborg, Finland, have reached
Kronstadt. A representative of the Red
Cross who has Just returned to Vibor*
says splendid order prevails at Kron
rtadt and that the origin of the revolt
whs the refusal of the Soviet authorities
to consent to the demand thut Soviets
should he appointed by election and only
a certain number of seats allotted to the
Bol hcvlkl. The Kronstadt <Jnvrnment
declares that It* aim Is reconstruction,
while the Bolnhevlkl aim at destruction.
