REPARATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 266, 9 November 1928, Page 7

REPARATIONS.

BRITAIN'S NEEDS.

Income Must Meet External

War Debts.

CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 8. Mr. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer) was asked in the House of Commons for a statement regarding the recent conversations in Paris on the reparations question. He replied that the conversation arose out of the decision taken at Geneva to set up a committee of financial experts to make recommendations for complete and final settlement of the problem.

During the conversations he made it clear, the British Government would continue to require enough from the Allied debts and reparations together to cover Britain's external debt payments.

Mr. Churchill continued: "But I am glad to say that the conversations revealed no disagreement in principle between the Governments concerned. No final decision has yet been reached as to th personnel and the date and place of the meeting of the committee, but I hope all these preliminary questions will be settled, and the committee constituted without any long delay. Perhaps I ought to say that it ought not to be inferred that thq German Government accept the view which we take at the present time."

Asked whether the reparations settlement was bound up with the question of the evacuation of the Rhineland territory, Mr. Churchill replied that the matter was entirely separate.

SEVERAL AMENDMENTS. WEEK'S DISCUSSION LIKELY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, November S. The debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Speech from the Throne tyill not be completed in the House of Commons until Wednesday evening. To-day will be devoted to the Labour party amendment calling attention to the industrial situation and unemployment and the discussion of this subject is expected to be continued on Monday.

Foreign affairs will form the subject of a Liberal amendment to be moved on Tuesday, when the Anglo-French naval compromise proposals and disarmament questions generally will be discussed. A further Labour party amendment expressing regret at the absence from the King's Speech of specific references to the proposed simplification of procedure for safeguarding industries will be moved on Wednesday, and an important Ministerial pronouncement on the subject is anticipated.