REPARATIONS CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19819, 6 January 1930, Page 9

REPARATIONS CONFERENCE.

I ♦ | MR SNOWDEN DISCUSSES PROSPECTS. I (BRITISH OTFICIAT. WIBEI.Z6S.) BTJGBY, January 3. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Philip Snowden, and the president of the Board of Trade, Mr William Graham, chief British delegates at the adjourned Separations Conference, arrived at The Hague this morning. I The preliminary session of the con- ! ference, due to take place this evening, will be an open session, and will be preceded by a private meeting of the delegates of the six Powers to consider the question of procedure. Prior to his departure from London last night, Mr Snowden, in a Press interview, said: — "1 do not think our work will be as arduous as it was last time. The preparation has been much more thorough. The various committees have got through an immense amount of work, and it is left for the delegates to fit together the loose ends. Among the questions to be considered are the ratification of the Young Plan, the International Bank scheme, and non-German reparations; but I do not expect that we shall be nearly so busy. The International Bank question is a highly complicated matter, but I think it will be adopted."

A PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION.

(ttkotd press associatios—bt slectbio teljeobiph —copyright.) THE HAGUE, January 3. Mr Snowden and M. Tardieu privately conferred prior to the preparations for the conference. M. Tardieu in a statement said: "We agreed that the whole Young Plan must be carried out in its entirety."