GERMANY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 August 1924, Page 9

GERMANY

HITCH AT CONFERENCE. -TROUBLE OVER EVACUATION. it GAEL! —PKCBH ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received August 11, 10.5 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 10. That a hitch has arisen at tne London conference in connection with the date of the evacuation of the Ruhr is asserted by French correspondents in London. Ihe Ere Nouvelle says that General Noliet’s plan for evacuation created such a stir that M. Herriot returned to Paris to consult Cabinet with a view to securing a precise definition of the French Government’s point of view.

The Pertinax describes M. Herriot as astonished at the attitude of certain negotiators, who consider France’s decision to abandon the light bank of the Rhine as definite, but refuse to compensate France in the siightest for that step.—Reuter. MILITARY CONTROL OF RUHR. MODERATE VIEWS OF M. HERRIOT. A POINT GAINED. Received Aug. 11, 11.45 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 10. An official statement- ot the proceedings ol Cabinet, supports the earner ImpiessiG'ii tnac M. Herriot and ivi. Nollet, disagreed at London, but the Premier’s lias triumphed. iVI. Nollet urged Cabinet that the evacuation ot the Ruhr should depend on the execution of the Dawes report and thei achievement of French security, based on military control of Germany, plus her disarmament.

M. Herriot recommended that the" Ruhr should be completely evacuated when the Dawes plan is put into operation .

Marshal Foch, who had been specially summoned, sided with M. Herriot, and when M. Domergee and several Cabinet members had expressed a similar M. Nollet subsided. An unofficial version states that Cabinet is disposed to complete Ruinquittance in twelve months instead of two vears.

M. Herriot expects the London agreement to be completed on Friday, but he will: not sign unless the Chamber votes confidence in him when it reassembles on August 20. , A .semi-official statement say’s that M. Herriot stated that the London Conference would be succeeded by another to discuss inter-Allied debts in the second half of November, after the American elections, so that the United States would able to participate. The economic question is foreshadowed to form the subject of further conversations between the interested Governments ; also questions relating to disarmament and a pact of mutual guarantees. —Renter.