REPARATIONS QUESTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3106, 27 December 1921, Page 5

REPARATIONS QUESTION.

NEW SCHEME PROPOSED. EXPORT TAX TO REMAIN. By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. Received December 27, 1.0.30 a.m. PARIS, Dee. 26. A telegram from Berlin states on good authority that M. Brinnd and Mr Lloyd George have reached an agreement regard nig Germany's payments. Instead ot yearly payments of two thousand million marks, Germany will pay five, hundred millions, while the lax on exports remains. Britain accepts the Wiesbaden terms on condition that France accepts new proposals for ihe stabilisation of the mark—A. and N.Z. cable. GERMAN REPLY DELAYED. OBJECTION TO ALLIED CONTROL. Received December 27, il a.m. BERLIN, Dee. 24. The Government has deferred its reply I o die Reparation Commission's Note pending Hen- Rathcnait's return from London, but it is sr.-mi-oflitvally staled that there cannot b(. any quest ion of Allied control ol the limine,'., in Germany, which would be an mfrim.-eine.nl of her independence. -A. and A 7, cable. ENTENTE STRENGTHENED. Received December 27. 8 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 24. Replying in ihe Chamber of Deputies to M. Clot/., who contended thai the French taxation 'was double that of Germany, M. Briaud .-aid France did not intend to abandon any guarantees she already held. Mr Lloyd '(b'oige had in no wise suggested the' imposition of fresh French sacrifices The London conversations had strengthened ihe Entente.—A. and N.Z. cable. CONFERENCE OF PREMIERS. Received December 27, 8 a.m. LONDON, Dee. 26. Mr Lloyd George and M. P.riand will -pend a lew days together ai ('amies before the conference opens on 4th January. -A, and N.Z. cable. TREATY NOT TO BE REVISED. Received December 27, 11.40 a.m. PARIS. Dee. 25. In the Chamber of Deputies M, Briaud. replying Io a quest inner, emphatically said that the Franco-British Entente was complete and consolidated as far as possible. He declared there was no question of revising Ihe Versailles Treaty or recasting its conditions regarding the payment of reparations ai the forthcoming conference. lie also said that Mr Lloyd George, bad never thought of impairing French interests.—A. and N.Z. cable.