Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-13
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BRITAIN TO De NAND
40,0(0,OO0,OOO
Peace Congress Opens First
Week in January.
TO MAKE GERMANY PAY
LLOYD George, Balfour, Law ano
Barnes To Represent Great Britain
In Observation-Disclosures Dele
GATE Yet To Be Selected.

London.-Great Britain will demanu
of Germany 8,OOO,00O,o0o pounds ster
ling for Great Britain and her domln
ions as reparation for the war, aocoru
ing to the Daily Mail.
This, the Daily Mail adds is Wha'
the war cost Great Britain ana mel
dominions, and British taxpayers Will
be relieved of 400,000,00O pounds psi
annum by the German payment.
The British claim, says the Daily
Mail, has been prepared by a commit
tse under Mr.. Hughes, the Australian
Premier, and Baron Cunliffe, former
governor of the Bank of England VINO
is one of the principal members OF rhe
committee.
The Daily Mail says the French
claim for PREPARATION will be Infinitely
larger than that of Great Britain.
Congress Opens New Year Week.
Paris Wilson will be In
formed by wireless of the plans tol
The assembling Of the inter-Allied con
ference and the meeting of the peace
CONGRESS-. He will also be advised CON
-erning the recent gathering OF the
Supreme War Council at London. ID
The meantime, reports that the Fres'
iGent has approved of anything done
at the supreme council are premature
The plans concerning the peace
meetings are the results OF Colonel
Edward M. Houses long talk with
Premier Clemenceau, following con
ference with Baron Sonnino, the
italian foreign minister, and the Earl
of Derby, the British ambassador 10
France.
The inter-Allied conference will re-
assemble on December Is or II. the
meetings will be at the foreign of11ces
in the Quai d'Orsay and not at Ver
sailles. David Lloyd George, the Brit
ish premier, and A. J. Balfour, the
foreign minister, expect to come here
at that time to meet President Wilson
and attend the conference, but the
elections in Great Britain may not
permit them to remain more than TWO
or three days.
To Waste No Time.
The opening of the peace congress
| Is set for the first week In January
II was the desire Of the Americans
to begin at the earliest possible mo-
ment. Other delegations felt that a
later date would be necessary, owing
to the Christmas holidays and the ON
| cial functions connected with the pres
| euce of President Wilson and King
| Victor Emmanuel of Italy, but the hrst
| week in January finally was chosen.
The first meetings will be for the
| actual framing of the prelimlnarles
| of peace with the representatives OF
! the enemy powers, who will be pres
| emit.
The names Of the French delegates
to the peace congress have not as yet
been announced, but 1t is understood
thew will be three members OF the
government and possibly a fourth
member.
The British delegates will be
Premier Lloyd George, Foreign Min
lister Balfour, Chancellor Of the Ex-
cheouer Andrew Bonar Law, George
Nicou Barnes, labor members Of the
war cabinet, and a fifth delegate not
yet selected.
It Is anticipated that the peace de-
alterations will last about four months,
and, unless unforeseen obstacles arise,
that final action will be reached to-
ward the early part Of May.