The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-26

will be Germany's capacity for pay
ment in ten or twenty years.
Regarding question four, the Temps
says:
"For nearly two years Germany has
resisted and evaded. The offers she
brings at the last minute under men
ace Of the occupation Of the Ruhr have
no greater value in her eyes than her
signature to the treaty Of Versailles
Explains Difficulty.
The Intransigeant in explaining Mr..
Lloyd Georges dificulty in following
Premier Brands proposed course, re-
minds the world that there also is
public opinion in France that reiterat-
ed we must be paid"
La Liberty considers the occupa-
J ton of the Ruhr basin as having been
! adopted in principle, but says Ger
many still is gaining time.
Bon Soir asserts that the United
States had withdrawn from European
| affairs and adds:
To-day they re-enter but it is at
Germany's request and consequently
| to serve her"
The communist newspaper Intena-
tween Premiers BRAND and Lloyd
|
LONDON, April 2S-Allied officials
began to gather here today for con-
ference preparatory to the meeting Of
the supreme allied council on Satur.
day. which will discuss finally Ger
manys latest reparations proposals
! Louis Loucheur, minister of Liberated
regions in the French cabinet, was
| expected to arrive from Paris, and
other allied ministers were believed
| to be on their way to this city. An
| nouncement Of the German reparatiou
proposals, which are being transmit
ted to the allies through Washington
was being awaited with interest.
| Chief interest in these terms ap-
peared to center around the suaran-
tees offered the entente. Advices from
Paris indicate this phase of the pro-
posals will be closely examined by
Premier BRAND and the members OF
his cabinet. The French premier Is
quoted in dispatches as saying the
guarantees he had in mind AS being
the proceeds of industries and the de-
the proceeds of industries aud the de-
post of gold by the Berlin admins
tration.
Expect Statement.
minister. was expected to make public
today at least the outstanding points
OF Germanys proposals.. He withheld
information as to details of the terms
yesterday because of an understanding
with L. L. Dresel, American commits
sioner in Berlin. but it was authorita
lively asserted the sum Germany
would be willing ultimately 10 pay
would be approximately 1000. 900. 00C
gold barkS or in the neighborhood oil
$50, 900, 900, 0o0. 1t was declared the
German government had suggested
that the amounts to be paid annually
should be conditioned upon the eco
nomic recovery of the country. In ad
dition, the floating of an international
loan was urged.
In addition to the proposals offered
by the German government, the su
preme council will be called upon tc
consider the answer of Berlin to de
mand from the allied reparations com
|, mission for the payment of 100000,
900 gold marks before Saturday.
Result Of Attitude.
This sum was asked as result o
the attitude the Berlin cabinet ha!
taken toward the demand that the
gold holdings of the Reicnsbank BIZ
|, transferred from Berlin to either Cob
LEM or Cologne and in view of Ger
| many's failure to fulfill the provisions
of article 235 Of the Versailles treaty
This article called upon Germany tt
pay to the allies the equivalent o.
, 10000, 900 900 before May I. 1921.
/ There are indications that allied
military experts will be called into
, consultation by the supreme council
on Saturday if the German repara
tions terms prove unsatisfactory. Mar
! shall Foch, General Degoutte, and sew
) eral other prominent figures in the
French army will, it is announced, &C
company Premier BRAND on his triI
to this city.