GERMAN GUARANTEES

Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4

GERMAN GUARANTEES

SOUGHT BY REPARATIONS commission. SIR JOHN BRADBURY’S MISSION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, August 18 The Reparations Commission has asked Sir John Bradbury ftbe principal British representative on the Commission) to obtain certain indispensable information from the German Government. August 19. It is reported that Sir John Bradbury’s mission to Berlin is to endeavor to arrange ah agreement by which Germany will give guarantees which will meet with the French demands in connection with tho moratorium. It is suggested that Germany might be persuaded to transfer to the banks'in tho occupied 'territory a sum representing a portion of tho capital value of tho Ruhr mines and forests, thereby enabling France to relinquish her demand for their control. Another report declares that France is preparing to act alone, and will occupy tho Ruhr within forty-eight hours if the Reparations Commission grants a moratorium without adequate guarantees. LONDON, August 18. Tho rate of exchange with Berlin has slumped to 5,550 marks to tho £l.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FRANCO-R U SSI AN FLIRTATION. PARIS, August 19. Widespread interest is being taken in the prospective meeting between M. Heriot and M. Tchitcherin. Tho former is one of tho French Radical Socialist leaders, and os tho originator’ of tho Lyons Fair and one of France’s most table business organisers. Ho intends later to go to Russia, Tho Government announced that his mission is in no way official. —A. and N.Z. Cable.