REPARATIONS QUESTION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 8

REPARATIONS QUESTION

PARIS CONVERSATION BRITAIN ’ S ATTITUDE (British Official Wireless.) Him'. 1 |i.tn. RUGBY, Nov. 8. Mr. Winston Churchill was ashed m the House of .Commons for a statement on the reparations question. lie replied that the conversations arose out ot the decision taken at’Geneva to set up a committee of financial experts to make recommendations for a complete and linal statement, of the problem. During the conversations he made it. clear that the British Government would continue to require.' enough from the /'.Hied debts and reparations together In cover .Britain’s external debt payments. Air. Ghurchill continued: “But, 1 run glad to say the conversations revealed no disagreement in the principle between tin' Governments concerned. No final decision has yet been reached as to the personnel and date and place of the meeting of the committee, hut I hope all these preliminary questions will he .settled and the committee constituted without any long delay. Perhaps 1 ought to .say that it might not to he inferred that the Herman Government accepts the view which we take at the present time/’ Asked whether the reparations settlement was bound up 1 with the question of the evacuation of the Rhineland territory. Mr. Ghurchill replied that the matter was entirely separate.