WAR DEBTS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 26 August 1929, Page 3

WAR DEBTS

XMCiIE CONFERENCE. >Pfii Association — THE HAGUE. August 22. te e meeting of the six Powers, SBMEidi th&: private converst would be resumed in a last Pic avert the failure of the con-. B !f meeting adjourned till Friday ■n. te Italy. Belgium and Japan • nrpleted proposals largely fulIkais’s demand- Germany's Be THE HAGUE. August 24. Ysly gain Bri air. recorded durit reek-end is Italy s consent to rirger cuantitic . : British coal railways. This has been in a protocol, which is only *#•l izreement thus far reached ®Qmierer.ce. Meanwhile- there is of the four Powers to ini&nnany to comritv.te. but Dr. eE ~ • willing to consider ®L:t;- of doing so. irodeo cr.d the c.’hers worked 'breath some conclusion. ar.w.-den has sent a letter Ja -’pcr demanding, without • and final written offer " Powers. He rejectee? as ■ subsequent verbal offer. Confenr.ee hrs beC:: * confounded. The four ■ intimated that they have possible concessions to d is a Question be‘■_l„ a -,,> - - ;1 ., Accord- . * s the Mternoon Dr. Her? C 0... • Mr Herr C.::-. denied that made any off;.. Never - lGt r »„ ' S . a stron § impression prepared to bargain ' ’" aia eco; '‘Otnic sacrifices ' °°Dcessicns such as the ‘""■ l£Q of the Rhine. t London. August 24. correspondent of the C-iardiaii reports receivpress a; midnight. M. ' Ucced ’-bat France. »t)(7', “ aci had jointly t a fixed sum ** added t 0 the - cf the Young annuities, k . r ' ?t prese:; t mention the would be distri- ' the four Powers. ■_ -u be seen whether Mr b>r *® asider the amount 1 e ofTer seems most ■ avoids the necessity of

a revision of the distribution of the Young annuities. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, after three forced landings, owing to bad weather, landed at Hendon from Lossiemouth, and motored to Downing Street. He disclaimed that there was any special significance to his return to London, and would not say whether he was visiting The Hague, where he admitted matters were indefinite. Signor Mussolini in a special article in the “Evening Standard,’’ justifying Italy's opposition to the British claims at The Hague, says: “It is remarkable that Mr Philip Snowden, one of the great pillars of the British Labour Party, should lead the fight for England on strict Nationalist lines. The Labour Party proposes to grant extended independence to Egypt on ths principle of self-determination and the democratic conceptions of the concord of the people, yet Mr Snowden leads the fight purely on national claims, apparently in complete oblivion to his party’s professed adherence to international solidarity. “The Young Plan seems to be the best that can be worked out from a complex and intricate situation. This conference must succeed or we are faced with a European financial crisis. England will gain with all the rest when the question is finally removed from the field of international controversy.”