REPARATION

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 88, 11 October 1920, Page 7

REPARATION

MILLERAND'S DEMAND

COMMISSION SHOULD MEET AGAIN •A'" SUEPRISK FOB BRITAIN, (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.) (AUSUfcitMN ' NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Bth October. ' The Daily Chronicle says it was a sharp surprise for the British Government to find that M. Millerand had changed his views since the Spa Conference. He wished a special meeting of the Reparation Commission to be held in Paris, instead of a, joint Commission of Allies and Germans sitting at Geneva. Though Belgium supports the attitude of France, America strongly backs up the British view, Britain might consider a. previous meeting of the Reparations Commission, but only as a preliminary to the Geneva Conference. The Morning Post's Paris correspondent says that the French view is that the Germans liopo to gain concessions at Geneva by inducing the Allies' leaders to consent to modifications of the Peace Treaty, whereas the Reparations Commission, being bound by the Treaty, is not empowered to grant concessions. It is understood that the French reply to Lord Curzon will insist upon a meeting of the Reparations Commission, but a. compromise may be arranged when JI. Delacroix meets Mr. Lloyd George shortly. LONDON, 9th October. The difference between Britain a-nd France regarding the General Conference is that Britain favours a meeting of the Allied Council to discuss with German delegates the indemnity proposals, bub France is unwilling to meet German delegates on an equality. France also desires to limit the proceedings at Geneva to a meeting of financial experts from the Allied Reparation Commission, to draw up a preliminary plan regarding the indemnity for submission to the respective Allied Governments. The British method would accelerate a settlement of the indemnity problem.