GERMANY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 August 1924, Page 5

GERMANY

ALLIED DISCUSSIONS. THE QUESTION. A DIFFICULT STAGE. B 1 CABLE—EREBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. v LONDON, Aug. 9. The council of fourteen, on which the Germans sit, spent the day quietly, but political observers agree that tne council rnay enter upon a difficult day next week, particularly in connection with the Ruhr question, while some incline to the view that Mi Herriot (French Premier), M. Theunis (Belgian Premier), and Dr. W. Marx (German Chancellor) may solve the difficulties of evacuation among themselves next week on the basis of an earlier evacuation on Germany’s i>romise of more extensive disarmaments. Others deduce that the week-end visit to Pans of M. Hernot and General Nollet (Minister for "War) indicates French dissension. The diplomatic correspondent says General Nollet wants to subordinate evacuation to some kind of security pact. M. Herriot realises that this is contrary to the Franco-Beigian contention throughout the occupation, that it was undertaken ,for reparation and not security. It has been semi-oifioiaily announced ,in Paris that M. Herriot simply de.sires to discuss the progress of negotiations with the Cabinet. The Daily Express understands that the conference on inter-Allied debts will be held probably in London soon after the reparations conference. LONDON, Aug. 10. The Reparations Commission has signed an agreement with the German Government relative to those pairts of the Dawes scheme which is within the competence of the commission, with the proviso that if the London conference fails, the agreement becomes void. The Reparation Commission is going to Paris forthwith. PARIS, Aug. 10. After a- midnight Cabinet meeting of three and a half hours it was announced that MM; Herriot, elemental and Nollet had received the council’s unanimous and complete approval with (reference to the conduct of negotiations at the London conference.

BERLIN, August 8. It: is learned that all political prisoners in the hands of the Franco-Belgians in occupied Germany will now he released. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The United States will be represented officially at any meeting of the Allied Finance Ministers which may consider the allocation of the German reparations payments as a result of the interAllied conference discussions in London.