Taiban Valley news., 1921-04-29
BERLIN TRIES TO
HALT INVASION
NEW GERMAN NOTE SENT TO
UNITED STATES OFFERS
COMPROMISE.
BRITISH BACK FRENCH
BRAND AND LLOYD GEORGE PUT
FAITH IN MEASURES PLANNED
BY FRANCE.
(wsstern Newspaper Union News serrice)

(Western Newspaper Union News Service)
London, April %. - The German
counter-proposals, says dispatch
from Berlin, are very long.
The first part is in the nature of
a protest, but in finality they are ap-
preciably nearer a fuller realization
of the allies standpoint. The German
cabinet unanimously accepted them.
1t is understood that in the event
of the occupation of the Ruhr region
of Germany, says Reuter- dispatch
from Hythe, that no British troops
will be employed, but there will be
some cavalry and tanks to show the
solidarity of the allies.
Berlin.-The contemporaries on
reparations have been presented to FL
lis Loring Dressed, the American COM
missioner, and were Immediately
transmitted to the United States.
The new German proposals were
said by the German Peoples party
leader to represent liberal compro-
mise between the demands of the en-
tente made in Paris and Germany's
offer at London.
He said they would name far-reach-
ing guarantees covering economic obli-
cations to be assumed by Germany in
connection with her present proposal.
The leader also stated that the new
reparations proposals Germany is max
ing are such that the entente cannot
afford to ignore them; that Germany,
In view of the offer of the United
States, is determined to make repa-
rations offer such as will save Presi-
dent Harding any embarrassment and
not make Germany appear ridiculous
in her present action.
This party leader declared that
France would have the least of reasons
to reject the new proposals, which he
limited as having been designed to rep
resent liberal compromise by Ger
many.
The governments failure to deliver
the note to the American mission i'm
mediately, according to the promise Of
Foreign Minister Simons to the reichs-
tag, caused numerous rumOrs which
represented the cabinet as being all
but disrupted by dlssension over the
proposal.
The protracted deliberations, it was
said, was due to conflicting opinions
on the phraseology of the note.
The cabinet is said to be united re-
derlying Germany's new offer and al
so assumes complete responsibility for
the note, as it does also for the step
which led to Germany's appeal to
President Harding. Reichstag leaders
were so informed.
Hythe, Eng.-England backs France
to the limit In her plans to make Ger
many pay, but before putting their
final 90 K" on the coercive measures
mapped out for May 1, the premiers of
both countries are willing to listen to
the new German offer suggested to
Berlin by President Harding.
Briefly summarized, that is the up
shot of the conference at Lympne be-
tween Lloyd George and BRAND.
1t is result of tremendous interest
and Importance to America, for 1t
means that Americas attitude has be-
come, overnight, almost once more the
dominating factor in old world poll
tics, without, however, entangling her
in any way in old world intrigues.
The counsel of the American Presi-
dent, spoken in the midst of supreme
crisis and spoken with unprecedented
promptness and without fear or favor
with malice toward nOne"-has
changed the whole political outlook in
Europe from the apparent inevitability
Of new war into strong probability
Of an understanding.