THE ALLIES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 July 1924, Page 5

THE ALLIES

DISCUSSIONS AT DOWNING STREET. SHARP CONTROVERSY. 81 OABL3—PEEK ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, JULY 21. A plenary meeting of the delegates to the inter-Allied Conference at London is expected on Tuesday. Meanwhile the British Premier (Mr Ramsay MacDonald) and the leading delegates will discuss matters at No. 10 Downing Street. The Ruhr evacuation led) to a sharp controversy between General Desticker (France) arid General Sir Alexander Godlev, who urged a simple reversion to the pre-Ruhr- conditions under the Rhineland convention. Military experts have not yet reached an agreement. Apparently the machinery in the event of a German default is acceptable to the French Government and the big international financiers. Mr MacDonald is convinced, that Germany has no intention of defaulting, so the question is of hypothetical and little practical importance. Therefore Mr MacDonald considers he can safely make concessions to France on sanctions. BERLIN, July 21. Germany is impressed by the speed and energy of the Londion Conference, but the news of the acceptance of the sanctions clause has fallen like a bomb and has aroused a violent fulmination in the Nationalist press.