CONFERENCE WITH POINCARE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 144, 21 June 1922, Page 7

CONFERENCE WITH POINCARE

IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS

THE OUTSTANDING- PROBLEMS.

(UNIIDD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRI3HT.)

(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 19th June.

Mr. Lloyd George gave a luncheon to M. Poincare (Premier of France) and General Pefcain at No. 10, Downing Street. He afterwards conferred privately with M. Poincare, Earl Balfour, and Sir Robert Home (Chancellor of the Exchequer). The following official announcement is made:— The exchange of views between Mr. Lloyd George and M. Poincare ,was of a most friendly character. The first subject discussed was reparations. In view of the failure of the international loan, the British view was that this was a bad moment to establish definitely the amount of the German liability,'- because things were so low and so uncertain that any decision might provoke controversy later, especially as Germany's progress was dependent on the recovery of her foreign trade. It was decided that the next step of the Reparations Commission should be to investigate the real state of Germany's finances and see if with the assistance of a foreign loan the German Government could balance its Budget and establish its currency. When the report on this matter is received, further conversations will be held. M. Poin- [ care agreed to come over, probably at the end of July, ' but meanwhile no coercive measures are contemplated. The next: subject discussed was the j functions of The Hague Conference. M. ! Poincare' agreed_ with the British viewthat the function1" of experts at The Hague was to examine, in conjunction withrfthe Russians, any practical means for solving the difficulties regarding.Russian debts, private property, and credits. France and Britain agreed to co-operate in work at The .Hague on these lines. Tangier was then discussed, and it was- decided that- the subject should be referred to a conference of the British, French, and Spanish 'Govenunents, to take place in London towards the' end of July. It was also decided that an AngloFrench_ Commission should inquire into allegations that Greeks were being marched into the interior of Anatolia to perish by the way, and into the accusation and counter-accusations that Turks and Greeks were being massacred in the war areas. This matter will be further considered at the London Conference at the end of July. . LONDON, 20th June. M. Poincare and has party have returned to Paris. (Received June 21, 10 a.m.) PARIS, 20th June. Tne newspapers-are delighted at the renewal of relations between M Pofncare and Mr. Lloyd George after the interruption caused by the.Genoa dispute..