PRELIMINARY COUNCIL MEETING
I'KOGKAMMV DUIUNED. (Received 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, June 21. The Boulogne CoaU'ience has opened. Br-iiuin, Italy, Japan, Francs and Belgium are represented. " The procrnmnu of the conference was spttlod in the following ordei): —Firstly, the German indemnity; secondly, disarmament of Germany; thirdly, the Eastern question; fourthly, the Russian question. The morning's discussion was confined to the first two. Financial experts were charged with the preparation of the text which had been agreed upon for presentation at the evening conference. Similarly military experts are preparing a draft, of the notification v, Germany regarding disarmament, boMi of effectives and material. The conference, as regands reparations, agreed upon the principle that the annual minimum payment by G.srmany should be three milliards of gold marks, or nominally £150,000,000 yearly or a total o* £4,500,000,000.— Renter.
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Northern Advocate, 23 June 1920, Page 5
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