The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-14
ECONOMIC BARRIER IN HE RH|NELAND
 TOBE LIZ TED SOON
With SiIesian Question Out of Way, the Supreme Council Deyotes Its Effort to
 Other Matters
By Aranrlnt.d rre.as.

Paris, August 1S.-The lifting of the economic barrier of the Rhine- land in September. providing Ger many pays up the amounts she un- dertook to pay under the London ul- timatum and agrees to remove the boycott against French goods. was decided upon at the final session Of the allied supreme council today. It was decided. however, to maintain the occupation of Ruhrort, Duisburg and Duesseidorf until the next meet ing of the council. which 1t is under stood will be held previous to the Washington disarmament conference At that time Premier Briand con- sented the question of the occupa- tion of the right bank of the Rhine should be reconsidered
 With the question of the disposi ton of Upper Silesia out of its hands, the council went to work today on thes other matters which it had to take under advisement. The dcci- sions were reached after Nj. Briand as president of the council, replied tu attacks made by Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, and Sir Robert Stevenson Horne. chancellor of the British excheouer, against what was termed the present expen- sive system of administering the treaty. especially as concerned the occupation of the Ruhr region. This, Lord Curzon said, lis very costly and also irritating to German national sentiment and pride" The chancellor of the British ex- chequer argued that continuance oi the present system impoverished everyone of the interested powers and that means ought to be examin 70 for reducing the cost as the high ex- pense meant less reparstlons, United states to He Represented It WAS agreed to create an inter- allied commi ssion of financial ex- perts on which the United States would be represented, to study way' and means whereby a reduction ir occupation costs might be devised. The French premier, in a Ions speech, indulged in some sarcastic utteranees regarding Lord Curzon'' reference to German national senti' ment He opposed strongly dlscon- tinuance Of occupation of the three Ruhr cities.
 , "The French government" declared M. Briand, has no intention what soever Of hurting Germany's national septment or mai occupation Of the Ruhr cities indefinitely B2i there also s the national sentiment Of France to be taken into account Occupation of Duisburg, Ruhrort and Duesseldorf was decided jointly hN France, England, Italy and Bel giun because of the repeated failure Of the German. government to fulflll it's obligations under the Versailles treaty"
 He was convinced that the Wirth goyernment now was making all eff forts to live up to the undertakings entered upon after the London ulti- matuip, but added:
 "The Wirth government may fall another with more reactionary ten- deneies may, be formed, and another crisis reached between France and Germany
 The matter, however, was not so pressing, M Briand concluded, that 1t might not be postponed until the next meeting.
 Left to Foeh
 Marshal Foch's military committee. after it had been decided to maintain military control in Germany, was en- trusted with the task of deciding lhow such control was to be exer- ci ised-wTether by commissions on the spot, as now Is the case, or oth- erwise.
 Ambs ssador Harvey took more active part in the three hours meet ing of the council this morning than at any session since the deliberations were started. being asked for his opinion or taking part in the discus sion of practically every question brought up, as America was directly interested. especially in the Russian and Austrian situations
 At. this session the council decided upon the makeup Of the lnterna- Iifohal famine relief com mmission n n which will deal with the famine situation in Russia. This commits sion will not be merely interallied, but. Sweden Denmark Norway ana other neutral nations will be asked to join.
 Concerning the diplomatic situa-
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