WAR DEBTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1924, Page 5

WAR DEBTS.

GERMAN REPARATIONS. . THE ITALIAN ATTITUDE. AN INCREASE SOUGHT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ROME, Dec. 11. During the debate in the Senate on the Foreign Office estimates, the Premier (Signor Mussolini), referring to debts and reparations, said it was neither human nor just to grant facilities to Germany and not to the Allies. He hinted at possibility of Italy asking for an increase of the ten per cent, allowed her at the Spa conierence on .German reparations. Regarding the Geneva disarmament protocol, he expressed the opinion that it should be studied very carefully because of its delicate character and the undertakings involved. FRANCE AND AMERICA. QUESTION FOR CONFERENCE. PARIS, Dec. 11. Press reports regarding the inclusion in the Dawes reparation plan of the American war claims elicited the state. ment from the Minister for Finance (M. Clementel) that the conversations between Erance and America on October 25 recognised the principle of such claims, hut no figure was mentioned. The whole question would be submitted to the inter-Allied conference of Finance Ministers in January. Anyhow, there was no question of the American claim being treated more expeditiously than the French.