DAWES PAYMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10726, 25 October 1928, Page 5

DAWES PAYMENTS.

ANGLO-FRENCH ACTIVITIES STILT. CAUSE SPECULATION. REVISION NOT SOUGHT BY BRITAIN OR BELGIUM. FRANCE MAY HAVE SPECIAL REASONS. United Pre«« Assn. by Ei. Tel Copyriebi (Australian Press Association.) (Received Oct. 24. 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 24. “Jlr Parker Gilbert's activities continue to excite speculation as to what happened 1 when Mr Churchill went to Paris,” says, the Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent. “Was it that Mr Churchill intimated that London upheld the Balfour note on reparations while M. Poincare indicated he stood by the previous utterances, and Brussels was no less adamant? The fact is that neither Britain nor Belgium, and possibly Italy, is in any hurry to revise the Daves plan, which is working well. France- may have a specie: reason arising from her commercial debt of £80,000,000 maturing to tne United States in the summer of 1929. It is primarily Mr Gilbert who is intent on re-opening the reparations problem supported by some sections of American political and financial opinion, but hardly by the Was hi ngion Government. BRUSSELS, Oct. 24..

Mr Parker Gilbert lunched with members of the Cabinet, who laid down that Belgium desired the maintenance of the Dawes payments, so long as the United States declined to diminish Belgium's debt.

THE COMING CONFERENCE. PROBABLE GERMAN DELEGATED. Cnltttj Press Assn by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received Oct. 24, 7.5 p.m.l BERLIN, Oct. 24. It is understood that tlie Dawes plan revision experts will be appointed as soon as Mr Gilbert concludes his London-Paris conversations. Germany will probably have three representatives, a member of the Government, a banker, and an industrialist.