GERMANY'S REPARATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17597, 9 October 1920, Page 7

GERMANY'S REPARATION.

FfiiNCE REJECTS OFFER.

NO DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS.

LOYALTY TO THE ALLIES. By T«lerra.ph—-Press Association—Copyright. 1;' (Received 8.30 p.m.) ■ ~ ,P. A. and N.Z. PARIS.. Oct. 7. It is' officially stated that no direct negotiations are proceeding between France and Germany' on the subject of reparations, which is a matter for all the Allies.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that there is no tru]th in the report that direct negotiations have commenced between France and Germany, though it is true that there have been conversations at the Financial Conference at Brussels to settle the problem of reparations. There is no idea of France, abandoning the Geneva Conference, though M. Millerand is likely to require more formal guarantees from Britain and the other Allies than he has thus far received, before he goes to Geneva. M. Millerand considers that an agreement among the Allies, implying eventual use of military sanctions, is an essential preliminary to the Geneva Conference.

FINANCIAL CONFERENCE.

DECISIONS AT BRUSSELS. A. and N.Z. BRUSSELS. Oct. 7. The work of the international financial conference has been concentrated in four commissions, which, ii< is expected, will report during the week-end. It is believed that the conference will recommend the League of Nations to create machinery for the promotion of international credits and also to establish a permanent body to continue the conference's work. One outcome is that the French and German delegates opened direct conversations on the reparation question. The report circulated that one commission desired the conference to make a pronouncement in favour of Free Trade is denied.