MR LLOYD GEORGE INTERVIEWED.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15041, 8 April 1919, Page 5

MR LLOYD GEORGE INTERVIEWED.

REPARATION A DIFFICULT

QUESTION

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London, April 6. Mr Lloyd George, interviewed by the "Matin," stated that by the end of April or the beginning of May the Conference would be able to invite the Germans to come and sign, the Peace Treaty. The reparation question was complicated, and there was disagreement between the technical experts regarding the method of payment and tbp amount collectable. There were no •differences in the Conference, and the plenipotentiaries were settling those between tho experts.

According to the newspaper "Journal," the first instalment of- the indemnity will be twenty-five milliard franrs,'of which five milliards will be payment for raw material necessary for the resumption of Germany's economic existence. France will receive ten mil-liard-..,0f. the first instalment and Belgium five. The remainder of the in-; demnity will be .spread over 35 wars, aTT'onntinp, annually to fifteen milliards according to some, and seven milliards a cording to others.

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The "Daily Mail," which continues its hostility to Mr Lloyd George, reminds him that his attitude toward Bolshevism, and the tenderness he is displaying towards Germany, occasion acute disquietude. " > «i7 h-? JE*.?,! correspondent of the "Daily Mail" alleges that Mr Henderson" and ,j.\lr Ramsay Mac Donald ihtomated to Mr Lloyd George thaUthe support of their followers depended upon his continuing to withhold sanction of active measures against the Bolshevists.