ALLIED IMPASSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 9

ALLIED IMPASSE.

| 50 COMPROMISE. ; FRANCE NOT TO BE MOVED, EFFECT ON THE ENTENTE, KUPTURE NOT INVOLVED. POINCARE'S ASSURANCE. Bj Wegrftob-rPreM Association— Copyright „' LONDON. Aug. 14. Ihe Allied Conference has broken down on the reparation issue, but will jneH acain this evening. At the morning meeting of: the conferen>'?» » proposal by Signor Schanzer s , )d Viscount Hayashi was made, accordjprr to a French source, that a provisional moratorium should be granted now and the final decision taken in three months, bot M. Poincare absolutely opposed any moratorium without guarantees Conflict of opinion on the question of Allied control of German forests and mines in the Rnincland and the Ruhr Valley led to the impasse. Mr. Lloyd Georcc made a supreme effort to arrive a{ an understanding. The Italians and Belgians are strenuously endeavouring to seVure » ren^ 3ll of the conference » but M Poincare remains unmoved. He has provisionally arranged to leave for France to-morrow. The Reparation Commission ha« suspended German payment due todav, wading deliberation. M Poincare, in the course of a long TCr "bal statement, said that ho wanted to insist that there was no rupture of the Entente, if French opinion thought that Britain 'wished to impose her will on * France it weald cause deep sorrow and a :rW j awakening. If France took back her liberty of action it would inevitably smash the Entente, " which for 35 years < 3 id M Poincare. "I have fostered and worked for. I will do everything possible thai I can to prevent such a disaster.' ' The clearing house debts question has bwn settled, the conference having ado:oted the proposal of the Committee of Ew«rts that Germany must pay the inimt of £2,000,000, due on August 15 within , four weeks. Thereafter, the various Government* will arrange separably with Germany regarding the paym.„t..of debte due to their nationals, subS to the approval of the Reparation SJU»-. M. Poincare and M. Theunis that the proposal involved sacriEre of principle, but agreed to it for the wte of-Allied unity. ,-^ r ; a , lv . The Dailv Express says editorially. -]for three years an appearance of interallied unity has been maintained by a '-tries of compromises. This time no compromise between England's .economic and France's political outlooks is possib e. We shall continue to hope till the twelfth hour that France will take .counsel with reason and sobriety and not acainst her own best interests." The Paris Temps considers that Mr. IJovd George is attempting to carry out the'traditioaal British policy of preventing the formation of a Continental bloc. •He is said to he afraid of French hegemony on the European Continent, the Temps asserts, "but it is not necessary that one Stat© should dominate all others in order to form a bloc, which will le constituted naturally if all nations are afflicted and threatened with or* aid the same economic ruin. Mr. ilovd George's policy is leading to this

nun.'' Jbe Gauloiß criticises the present publication of Mr. Lloyd Georges memoirs and «ays: "Mr. Lloyd George promise* amid the fever of power and the dm of tattle a work that seemed to demand Jong hesitation and the laborious leisure of retirement. His diplomatic history, which obviously will be that of his reign, is being written before the moment of his abdication or fail."

LLOYD GEORGE'S WEEK-END EXPLANATSON TO DELEGATES (Received 8.5 pjn.) United Service. LONDON. Aug. 14. Feara that the breakdown of the conference would involve a breach in the Entente have been allayed by the fact that M. Poincare subsequently joined the other Allied delegates in considering the Austrian question, which was referred to the League of Nations. A piquant side issue of the conference was Mr. Lloyd George's explanation why he spent the week-end in the country, regarding which there has been heated French criticism. Mr. Lloyd George said that he hoped ttiafc the delegates did not misunderstand bis motive. There was a strong feeling in Britain, against public work on Sunday unless . the situation urgently demanded it. He thought that the experts needed a rest, and that' the delegates would be able tr> wrestle with the problems better after a respite.

AN AMERICAN OPINION. BRITISH DEBT NOTE BLAMED. Eeuter. NEW YORK. Aug. 14. The Chicago Daily News gives prominence to the following cablegram from its London correspondent:—"lt is believed here that the Earl of Balfour's Note on international war debts killed the London Conference, and has discredited the British Government, and made certain the recall of Sir Auckland Geddes from his Ambassadorial post in Washington. Sir Auckland Geddes' position is obscure, but it is known that before he left London recently, he expressed the opinion that the Note would have a good effect in the United States.