CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT
BELGIANS CLAIM IMMEDIATE
INDEMNITY.
THREAT OF WITHDRAWAL
ANTI-BOLSHEVIK OFFENSIVE
OPENED.
TRQTSKY AND LENiN ABOUT TO
FLEE.
KIAO^HAU TO GO TO CHINA
REPARATION.
CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT.
BELGIANS CLAIM IMMEDIATE
INDEMNITY
[Pkess Association.] i (United Serviced (Received May 1, 0.35 a.Tn.) PARIS, April 29. Another critical sitafftian lias developed. Six Belgian Ministers are in Paris as a result -of a meeting of Ca"b'inet, at which the reparation scheme was strongly denounced. The claim that an immediate large indemnity is essential in •order to avoid a serious internal crisis and to enable 'reconstruction -work to proceed. The Cabinet threatens' to withdraw from "tlie •Conference if the scheme is not modified so as to provide that Belgium shall receive priority in the initial payments and her' whole share of tlio indemnity within ten years. The Council of Three -will Teccive the ©eigiajns tCMaaRy. \
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Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 5
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140CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 5
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