GERMAN REPARATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 3

GERMAN REPARATIONS

COMMISSION SEEKS COMPROMISE. VOLUNTARY GUARANTEES SUGGESTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, August 17. There are increasingly strong hopes that a compromise on the moratorium problem will eventually be reached on line® totally different from those discussed in London. Tho Reparations Commission has purposely delayetHts meeting until the feverish atmosphere dies away, but the Commissioners met informally to-day. They are making every effort to avoid an AngloFrench rupture, which a direct vote for or. against a moratorium will produce. It is undehstood that the Commissioners are already deliberating on several compromise plans which, while avoiding a rupture, would yield more and would be productive of the pledges M. Poincare demanded. It is believed that an authorised German Cabinet Minister will be heard by the Commission before a decision is reached. The first efforts will bo an invitation to Germany to offer acceptable guarantees voluntarily, in order to save hea-self financially.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BELGIUM DREADS RUPTURE. BRUSSELS, August 17. A meeting of Cabinet, after bearing M. Theunis and M. Jaspar, approved of tho Belgian attitude ,at the London Conference, and congratulated tho delegates on their efforts to preserve the Entente. Cabinet agreed that its maintenance was the very core of the Belgian policy.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ISOLATION FEARED. FRENCH OVERTURES TO RUSSIA. PARIS, August 17. ‘Lo Temps's’ Lyons correspondent states that M. Heriot (ex-M.inister for Transport.) will interview M. Tchitcherin and AI. Litvinoff on September 3, at Baden, when the Russians intend semi-officially to make new offer's of guarantees in place of those submitted at Genoa and The Hague. Commenting on M. Heriot’s mission, ‘Lo Temps’ says: “At a time when the Entente is cooling a resumption of relations between the great democracies of Russia and Franco will be a step towards a treaty with Germany—the other great European democracy. Between the three they could prevent all future conflicts.”— A. and N.Z. Cable. ITALY ALSO RECESSIVE. MISSION TO BERLIN. ROAIE, August 17. Signor Para tore (Finance Minister) will proceed in September on a special mission to Berlin to settle certain financial questions between the German and Italian Governments. It is believed that the mission is the outcome of his recent attendance at the London Conference.—A. and N.Z. Cable.