GERMAN REPARATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20373, 3 January 1930, Page 8

GERMAN REPARATIONS

THE HAGUE CONFERENCE DELEGATES ASSEMBLING. Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright, THE HAGUE, January 2. ' Delegates are assembling for tho opening of the Reparations Conference on January 3, the duration of which is uncertain, although every effort will be made to finish before the Naval Conference in London. Mr Philip Snowden and Mr W. Graham are leaving London but Mr Arthur Henderson is not coming. There is genera] relief because Dr Schacht will also be an absentee. ' . The object of the conference is to clear up matters not dealt with in August, and also to consider the charter for the International Bank and the questions of deliveries in kind and nonGerman reparations. Vienna, , for instance, is hoping that the conference will cancel Austria’s reparations debt. MR SNOWDEN LEAVES FOR THE HAGUE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 2, (Received January 3, at 12.30 p.m.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Snowden/, accompanied by Mrs Snowden and th© President of the Board of Trade (Mr William Graham), leave London to-night to attend the resumed Reparations Conference at The Hague. Sir Maurice Hankey (secrrtary-general of the conference) and the British technical adviser have already proceeded to The Hague, and Sir Eric Phipps (British Minister at Vienna) is attending in a diplomatic capacity. The purpose of the resumed meeting is to deal with items of the agenda which the delegates to the August conference at The Hague were unable to settle before having to proceed to the League’s meetings at Geneva. Among other matters, the delegates will deal with the question of an international bank, and will consider a draft charter drawn by the Organisation Committee, which met at Baden Baden. They will also examine a long report on the subject of' deliveries in kind, and consider questions relating to nonGorman reparations.