THE ALLIES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 August 1924, Page 5

THE ALLIES

MINOR DIFFERENCES. DISPUTE OYER RUHR OCCUPATION. CAULA—rniioo AeMociATiQN —cur ifRiuHT LONDON, Aug. 12. The Daily Telegrapn says tnat Monday's optimistic reeling regarding tne early termination ot tne London Conference gave puree to diffidence to-day owing to a senes of minor FrancuGernian differences.

latest-ieports suggest that the Germans are demanding the complete military evacuation of the Ruhr by January 1(J. The French offer was August 15. It is believed that- eventually April 15 will be accepted. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Herald (the Labour paper) says that M. Hei riot (the French Premier), M. Theunis (the Belgian Premier), and Dr. von Stireseman (German Minister for Foreign Affairs) met this morning. The correspondent adds: “I shall be surprised it news of the evacuation settlement with a date fixed for early in spring is not received before tonight.”

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. President Coblidge is much encouraged by the progress being made at the inter-Allied Conference in London with the Dawes plan, but he considers it unfair that the question of war debts of the Allies should become involved in the measure at this time with the reparations problem.

So far as debts owed to the United States by the Allies are concerned, President Coolidge adhered to the view of the administration that he was powerless to- consideir any new proposals on that subject, 'since Congress had laid down specifically the terms on which all war debts settlements must be made.

LONDON, Aug. 13. ... The Daily Mail states that M. Cleriientel (French Minister for Finance) and Herr Luther (German Minister for Finance) had a conference in London, and agreed on definite preliminaries for a Franco-German commercial treaty, commencing on October 1. Experts have been summoned to draw up details.