SUPREME COUNCIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 9 August 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COUNCIL.

x AMERICA TO ATTEND. Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, August 6. The American Embassy announces that Colonel George Harvey will attend the forthcoming meeting of the Supremo Council. The announcement is accompanied by an explanation that the Government of tho United States, while maintaining its traditional policy of abstention from participation in matters distinctly European, is deeply interested m the proper economic adjustment and tho just settlement of the matters of world-wide importance discussed at these conferences, and desires to co-operate hopefully. FEARS OF A CRISIS. LONDON, August 6. The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent states that the Supreme Council "meeting is awaited with undisguised tension. All shades of the Piess are emphasising Herren Wirth and Shiffer’s recent declaration that if an appreciable portion of Upper Silesia is given to Poland an insoluble' political crisis will ensue in Germany, as neither the Cabinet nor tho Reichstag will undertake the Government of the country.

An official brochure has been issued which, without heat and without recrimination, sets out the economic con'sequenecs which will follow Germany’s loss of industrial and mining areas. The author of the brochure concludes' “Germany’s exporting power will be so reduced that she will be unable to feed her population, much less meet reparation payments.”

THE AGENDA. LONDON, August 7. The “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent states that Colonel Harvey is sitting on the Supreme Council as observer on behalf of the United States, The British delegation received an ovation when it arrived to-day, a crowd of 3000 cheering England and the Entente. The sittings begin at 11 a.m. tomorrow, and are expected to last ten days.* Tho agenda consists of tho following: (1) Upper Silesia. (2) War criminals and the Leipzig verdicts. (3) The question of modifying the sanctions imposed on Germany. (4) Military and civil aerial control. (5) Near Eastern questions, including the Turco-Greek war. (6) Tho Russian famine.