DISTINCT QUESTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 9

DISTINCT QUESTIONS

RHINELAND EVACUATION AND REPARATIONS MR. CHURCHILL S STATEMENT British Official Wireless Reed. 1.10 p.m. RUGBY, Thurs. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, was asked in the House of Commons for a statement regarding the recent conversations in Paris on the reparations question. He replied that the conversation arose out of a decision taken at Geneva to set up a committee of financial experts to make recommendations for a complete and final settlement of the problem. During the conversation he made it clear that the British Government would continue to require enough from the Allied debts and reparations together to cover Britain’s external debt Payments. Mr. Winston Churchill continued: “But I am glad to say that the conversations revealed no disagreement in principle between the Governments concerned. No final decision has yet been reached as to the personnel and date and place of the meeting of the committee, but I hope all these preliminary questions will be settled, and the committee constituted without any long delay. “Perhaps I ought to say that it ought not to be inferred that the German Government accepts the view which we take at the present time.” Asked whether the Reparations settlement was bound up with the question of the evacuation of Rhineland territory, Mr. Winston Churchill replied that the matter was entirely separate.