REPARATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19007, 7 May 1924, Page 5

REPARATIONS

THE EXPERTS’ PROPOSALS CONFERENCE PLEASES BELGIANS LONDON, May 5. An Ostend correspondent says that although the Allied agreement has ntn yet been reached with regard to the aplication of the experts’ proposals, progress is undoubtedly being made in connection therewith. The conferences which M. Theunis and M. Hymans have had with M. Poincare and Mr MacDonald seem, to have done much to clear the air. The Belgian Ministers arrived at Ostend in the afternoon from London. M. Theunis said, “We discussed the broad lines of the reparation problem in the light of the experts’ plan. lv is indispensable that there should be goodwill. It is evident that Mr MaeDonald is animated by an undeniable desire to reach an agreement. He does not conceal his sympathies with France. Wc return favourably impressed.” M. Hymans, when asked if an interAllied Conference may be looked for in the near future, replied: “That is a difficult question to answer. There is certainly an Allied agreement at the moment, and judging by conversations I had, such conference may be nearer than many think.”

Both Ministers declared that strict secrecy with regard to what transpired at Chequers was most essential in the interests of Allied unity.