LONDON CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 5

LONDON CONFERENCE.

I GR EAT MEETING BEGINS. CO.OPEEATION PROMISED. H()N OUR FOB MB. MACDONALD. t Cubic.— Press Association.--Copjrlgbt.> (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 16. Public interest in the opening of the mifd Conference, was shown by the ! crowd in Downing Street an hour rL its commencement, including New 7 land Eov Scouts, many journalists frf photographers. There was a constantprocession of motor cars and taxis fiom W- 45 o,nvard - ~ , , Tie Japanese delegates were the. first arrive. Then came M. Caclamanos rvpccel. General Borton de Mattos Sal) and Count Titulesco SS£ fol—d by Serbians, Bellg>, and M. Herriot, oi France who L a particularly hearty welcome, filially came the Italians. ill proceeded to the Foreign SecrefarT 's room, where they took their rlaces at the horseshoe table. The first meeting ended at one o'clock. BRITISH PREMIER'S WELCOME. Resuming at five o'clock in the even- - jjj.. Ramsay Mac Donald, in a speech, Scorned the delegates and urged the enforcing of the recommendations of the Pawes Committee as a whole unaltered. p, would be tlie business of tlie conferece j. to create conditions under which the Davres plan will be likely to work. The" Premier hoped the conference would follow the good example of the Pawes report, approaching the problem a s a business proposition rather than from a political standpoint. The conference should deal solely with the Dawes plan. Mr. Mac Donald specially welcomed the American representatives as bearing evidence of the co-operation and goodwill of the United States. IHB FRENCH PREMIER. _. Herriot thanked Mr. Mac Donald for his noble words, and dwelt on the difficulty of the task of conciliation in tiie interests of the people concerned, and taking steps to restore and maintain peace. He emphasised that everybody in France most sincerely desired I peace. He proposed Mr. Mac Donald for the chairman of the conference. 3lr. P. Kellogg (U.S.A. Ambassador) thanked Mr. Mac Donald for welcoming the United States delegates, who had come in a spirit of helpfulness, and paid n vrarm tribute to the Dawes committee, and said the Americans believed the adoption of the Dawes report would be the first big step in the reconstruction of Europe. Senor Stefani seconded M. Herriot'a proposal that M Mac Donald be chairman, and promised Italian co-operation in the work of the conference. % The Japanese Ambassador promised similar co-operation. IT. Theunis, of Belgium, expressed confidence that the conference would succeed in the work for justice and peace. Hr. Mac Donald accepted the chair-, manship, and hoped the conference would ! succeed. Sir Maurice Hankey was elected secretary at the general conference. Three technical committees were appointed.—■ (Renter.) The newspapers describe the conference as the most important since the Versailles Treaty was signed. The political correspondent of the "Daily Herald," the Labour organ, says: Tt is generally recognised that the "conference must navigate the narrowest channel between too little concession to the French national viewpoint, in order not to encounter M. Poincare's opposition, and too much concession to that view- ; point, which might jeopardise the raising of the £40,000,000 loan. Political circles are guardedly opti- ' nistic, but the city tends to pessimism. It is feared that 'the politicians will not accept terms which will enable the loan ( t(. be floated. A message from Amsterdam states . that the joint conference of the Inter- i national Federation of Trade Unions and the Labour-Socialist International earned a resolution giving qualified approval to the Dawes scheme as the best I aethod available under prevailing con- i Wions for the ending of the chaos in iwope.-(A. and N.Z.—Reuter.j FRENCH STATESMEN ARRIVE. '. "VIVE HERRIOT!" "GOOD OLD RAMSAY!" LONDON, July 16. i S *n n f dele S ati °n tc the interfiled Conference has arrived. The ' Members were welcomed by Mr. Mac- ' Wv T embers of the Frencn E «- ' SS' T - MacDon ild and M. Herriot ' «cnanged most cordial greetings. The : S t°l ta(i - " Vive Herriot," and ' Good old Kamsav." W°o, Ital ' an and Be lgian delegations •« also arrived. They were welcomed ' of the Prime Minister. : |A - and _U. Cahle.) i HALP - H EARTED AMERICA. \ TATE OF THE DAWES PLAN. ' NEW YORK, July 10. j C-fn ft KJ lllitßd States Commis- ; Sa VLI ? R r l J l,leland - Mr- P- B. Noyes, ; te*' t0 General C G. Dawes, w-ho ■ Rinnan of one of the committees j ftfo+H ?" German reparation, pre- 1 SrtSi* "!• ° f that e °rn™ttee's ' We „l a p° ntmUed dGadlock betwee " StX> and GeriM nv, unless the United . Confl nn ! P - re^ntaUvo at the London m £ -V S Instructed by "is Govern- '. C *3 f ° m France that United [ »tes desires that she should renounce \ Independent policy i„ the Ruhr. CL? fu' a f ks oeneral Dawes to 8K + the that the j Ambassador, Mr. P. Kel- ! marT Ul ° London f '°'<f"ence, '< Clw an ?°" thttt ''"If-hearted attiC f representatives i„ Europe 5 5V„n 1 Pa t St^ Ur - VCarS - "c should ] m\ r *,° F u rance that lhe ™ted i ' W^ eV6d , the time had come for niil&rV make such as neC - eSSary t0 "-** together" attejnm ?* ?- an honest and effective plan t0 put mto operation the Dawes tan VI that he has reluc " Piani'& d at the conclusion that this man,"4 ■to "° into the discard M mS'TI plans for the inanr ti between France and Ger- { tt «-'w« A Tu rican poop,p ~ad set < plan Hßeuterl success of the Da "' es 1