Evening star., 1919-04-14
HUNS TO PAY so BILLION
INDEMNITY in SO YEARS,
ECHO DE PARIS DECLARES
Says Council Accepts
New Plan Offered
by Lloyd George.
FRANCE TO GET SARRE
MINES UNDER LEAGUE
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, April 14-Germany un-
der the peace treaty, must pay $5.-
100000, 900 i'm cash or the equiva-
lent before May 1. 1921. She must
also issue Immediately to the al
lied and associated governments
100000. 900 900 OF interest-bearing
bonds.
The interest on the bonds until
1925 will be either or 3 per cent.
and after that date will be per
cent. according to the present plan.
The bonds will be payable i'm in
stallments during n period of fif-
teen years. They probably will be
kept In the control Of a central
cOmmissiOn Of the allied and assO-
ciated governments 80 that they
shall not be marketed I'm quantities.
sufficient to break the price.
Germany also must Oblfgate her
self to pay other amounts for dam
age done, appropriate to her means.
to be determined by a mixed COM
allied and associated governments
and OF Germany, which shall re-
port before May 1, 1921.
PARIS, April 14.-Alarmed by the
result of the bye-election at HUH last
week, Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain, according tefhe Echo de Paris,
has persuaded the council of four to
revamp completely the financial plan
to be incorporated in the treaty of
peace. Instead of a payment of 25,-
600, 100000 francs on account and an
nual payments to be fixed by COM
mission, it has been decided to fix at
once the amount which Germany will
have to pay within fifty years. This
amount is kept secret, but it is indicat-
ed by the newspaper that figure OF
$50 .OOO. 600 900 francs has been agreed
upon, which includes all war damages
as well as the cost of pensions.
Fixing the total sum will have the
merit of facilitating treasury OPP
erations and the carrying out OF
mutual measures for assistance among
the allies. The first installment OF
| 25. .0e0. 100000 francs must be PAID
within eighteen months, the news
paper declares.
Directorate to Control Sarre.
Other newspapers, however, do not
mention any such change in the
terms, but all information in French
quarters agrees in regard to the Sarre
valley. 1t is said that it is settled
the mines will become the absolute
property of France. which will police
the region. The region, however, will be
administered by a sort of directorate
under the auspices of the league OF
nations. This directorate will consist
of one inhabitant of the Sarre regiou,,
one Frenchman and three nominees of
the league.
The regime. it is said, will last for
fifteen years, when a plebiscite will
be held and in the event that the in
habitants elect to return to Germany
that nation will be obliged to buy
back the mines. paying in gold. To
carry out this task would be no mean
undertaking. say the commentators,
especially those of the Echo de Paris
and LIE Journal. who declare it to be
|, regime. which they say has been seen
to be the equivalent of most COM
plete inertia"
Military Plan Dissatisfies.
Neither are the critics satisfied
with the plan for military Occupation
of the left bank of the Rhine. al
/ though the methods to be followed
have not been finally decided upon.
1t is stated in French quarters that
this will be entirely in the hands
of French troops. who will guard the
bridgeheads and railroad junction.
In addition, there is to be new
thirty-mile neutral military zone on
the right bank of the river, it is said.
These two measures will be in force
only fifteen years, French troops
being progressively withdrawn as in
stallments of the debt are paid by
Germany, as was done by that coun-
in, 1871
"PertinaX" writing in the Echo de
Paris maintains that if France is left
to guard alone the common good of
civilization she ought to be backed
actively by a defensive alliance with
England and America, which is clear
ly defined in detail
London Correspondent Optimistic.
LONDON, Sunday. April 13 british
peace with Germany have been sub
stantially agreed upon by the council
of four, the Paris correspondent of
the Sunday Observer says he under
stands. The only problem which they
have not yet approached is that of the
Bohemian border, he says. This prob
lem. he points out, is an intricate one,
CS L
a considerable number of Germans
must be included in the CZechoslovak
state.
"As for the other points concerning
the German border" continues the
correspondent sit seems that 1t only
remains now to decide upon some
minor questions. The question of
Danzig will very likely be settled by
setting up a kind of autonomous state
in that district while including it In
the Polish customs area"
President Agrees to Sarre Plan.
AS for the Sarre valley. the corre-
spondent says he understands that
President Wilson has definitely agreed
to the proposal originated by Premier
Lloyd George. which essentially con-
sists in giving France ownership of
the coal mines, while making the
Sarre district a neutral state under
the guarantee of the league Of ns~
tions.
1.-The questions of reparation ant
of disarmament in the Rhine region,
he says, seem also to have been more
or less settled in their broad out
covenant of the league of nations
has been redrafted. "one of the main
amendments consisting In recognition
of the Monroe doctrine as being in
conformity with the principle of the
league" The correspondent con-
tinues:
Whether the treaty will be ready
by Easter is. Of course. another dueR-
ton. The important fact is. h"~-