REPARATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1922, Page 7

REPARATIONS

AN AMERICAN CLAIM. (Australian and N.lit. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, March 11. Air. Roland Boyden will be the American representative to the Allied finance .Ministers’ conference at Paris. He has been instructed to make a formal demand that the cost of the American .Army of occupation be taken out of the German reparations payments. Tin* United States claim for the cost of maintaining its troops on the Rhine is 241 million dollars. “DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE.” ] i PARIS, March 11. , The American reparations claim has , caused a disagreeable surprise. “Le ( Matin” says that if the United States ( insists, it will be the end of Belgium’s . priority and France’s expectations. ; Meanwhile the Ministers have invited ( the Reparations Commission to formulate a detailed plan for an international loan to Germany. j

t Tho ‘‘Echo de Paris” regards sue! a loan as vain and useless, and think; , the Allies had better organise for re parations in kind, and raise money on the German cutsoins and industria ’ dividends. “Lc Matin” reports Germany' has intimated to the Reparations Commission that owing to tho low value ol the mark, she cannot continue the ten day payments fixed at Cannes. A communique shows that the total annual cost of the Reparations Commission is thirteen million gold marks, which Germany, Austria, and Hungary are jointly paying. NOTHING FOR AMERICA. Reed 8 a.m. PARIS, March 11. Tho British, French, Belgian and Italian Finance Ministers have concluded an agreement under which out of Germany's’ payments for the armies of occupation, until May Ist, France receives 460 million francs, Belgium 102 million francs, and Britain two million sterling. Out of Germany’s payments in kind in 1922, France receives sixty-five per cent. The signatories approved the Wiesbaden agreement for three years, conditional on the deferred payments not exceeding 350 million marks in 1922, and 750 million marks in 1923 and 1924. • WASHINGTON, March 11.' Tho non-inclusioh of the United States in the first allotment of the German occupation payments brought a statement from a high State Department

, authority that America will continue ■ strongly to insist on her share. FRENCH OPINION. PARIS, March 12 France considers that America is 1 fully entitled to payment for the main- ■ tenance of the American army of occult pation, but contends that as America is 5 not a party io the treaty of Versailles, 3 and signed a separate treaty with 1 Germany, she should deal direct with > Germany regarding payment. The ’ Allies’ allotment among themselves of •monies from Germany birises under conventions, in accordance with tho., - treaty of Versailles. The American • note emphasises that she will create i no difficulties regarding the practical , details of payment, provided tho Allies I give -an assurance of payment.