Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-01-24
TREATY COUNCIL
MEETS To TALK
Of PREPARATIONS
France Considers Sess-
ion Nearly as I'm
portant as Versailles.
German Disarmament
Is One Subject to Be
Discussed by Premiers.

| Paris, Jan. 23.-(By The Associated
| Press. )-The meeting Of the supreme
council, beginning Monday morning in
| the famous Clock room of the foreign
office, where the plenary sessions of
the peace conference were held, is re-
| garded in France as second only in
| Importance to the deliberations from
| which came the treaty of Versailles.
/ The duration of the new ministry of
Aristide BRAND, it is generally under
stood, will depend upon this meeting
and the results the premier will be
able to bring from the council to the
! chamber of deputies. The general
feeling over the situation is optimistic.
The French people have been great
ly reassured during the past few days
by the tone of the British press and
seem confident that the allies will be
able to agree fully, not only upon the
measures to secure the disarmament
OF Germany but upon the general lines
OF reparatiou.
Meet With BRAND.
There was cordial conference for
half an hour Sunday night Immediately
upon the arrival Of thesBritistszslleelcEll
ton between David Lloyd George. the
British prime minister, Earl Curzon
of kedleston, the British foreign Sec
cretary and NJ. BRAND, the new French
premier. The. conference strengthen
ed the impression that the work of the
cnJnrjI unr,1I hoDip,
favorable conditions.
Disarmament will be the first SUBJ
ject to occupy the conferences. Then
it is expected, reparations will follow,
and then the Turkish, Greek, Russian.
Austrian and other questions will be
discussed. The questions between the
allies and the United States likewise
will be gone over. It is expected the
conference will last about a week,
Confer on Preparations.
Frances attitude in the supreme
council concerning reparations was the
subject of conference Sunday morn
ing at the Elysee palace. Premier
BRAND went to the palace, accompani-
ed by Philippe J. l.. Berthelot. general
SECRETARY of the foreign office: Louis
Locheur. minister for the liberated
regions; Paul Doumer, minister of fl
nance: Louis Dubois, president OF the
reparations commission; NJ. Seydoux
and Pierre Cheysson. the French fl
nancial experts at the Brussels con
ference. and discussed the entire rep
arations question with President Mil
lerand
The report of the allied experts or
the situation was gone into and de-
cision was reached upon the form in
which the French viewpoint will be
placed before the supreme council.
Meeting in Secret
The representatives of the five pow-
ers at the council will include Great
Britain, Premier Lloyd George; France
Premier BRAND; ITALY. Count Sforza,
foreign minister; Belgium. Jasper
Thcunys. minister Of finance, and
Japan, Viscount Ishii ambassador to
France.
The meetings will be secret and will
have the aspect of p small peace con-
ference A number of advisers and
experts will be at hand.
The questions to be discussed will ,,
come up in the following order unless,
after an exchange of views, the dele
gates find it advantageous to adopt |
a different program:
Disarmament Of Germany; repara-
tons; Turkey and Greece and the
treaty of Sevres; war debts between
the allies and Austria; exchange and
relations between the allies and the
United States.
Discuss Treaty Terms
The disarmament discussion is ex-
pected to turn mostly upon the meas
ures to be employed by bring Germany
to comply with the peace treaty. AS
the allies are supposed TO be agreed
that Germany must finally d:sarm ef-
fectively. it is understood that France
does not want to amply the penalty of
occupation of further German terri
tory. provided the treaty of Spa is
confirmed. Nevertheless, Premier
BRAND is expected to take firm atti-
tude. os was indicated IN his minister
ial declaration with his significant allu-
sions to the fact that France has the
rorce to compel compliance with the
treaty il necessary.
Hear Preparations Exports
The reparations question will come
~ on the report Of the allied experts
Who met the Germans at Brussels. in
which they recommend that, pending
'inal determination Of the total of
debts. Germany shall nav
i've annual installments of 100000
'rancs in gold. Of which the minimum
n cash is to be fixed by the allies.
The experts will recommend that
7ermany be SLOWED to retain 3OO.O0O
ons Of shipping which remains to be
urned over to the allies and that the
expenses of the occupation of the
ebe reduced. J