The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-01-24
PARIS MEET
OF5POWERS
UNDER WAY
German Reparation and
Disarmament to Engage
Time of Conference.

Paris, Jan. 2.-Representatlves
Of Great Britain, France, Italy. Bel
gium and Japan gathered here today
for an important conference. The
principal figures are David Lloyd
George, British prime minister. and
Aristide BRAND, president OF the
council of the French republic. and
about these men the negotiations Of
the conference are expected to re-
volve during the week. 1t was be-
lieyed when the conference will
have adjourned, the allied world
will have settled questions which
have long threatened complications.
The importance of these subjects
ranked as follows:
Reparation; disarmament OF
Germany; enforcement or alteration
Of the treaty with Turkey; relief OF
Austria, and policies to be pursued
in dealing with Russia.
All of them were questions on
which the different participant ma
tons were more or less divided, and
the settlement Of which was viewed
with great concern.
| Arrangements for the first ses-
sion today contemplated discussion
of German disarmament by allied
military experts, who are under
stood to have agreed on a solution
which would grant q short period O
grace to Germany in which to exc
cute the engagements she made q
j ,lthesSpa conference. These agree
1 memts \call for demobilizaticn ana
] disarmament OF armed forces unde
1.-THE surveillance Of an inter-alliel
control commission and it was be
} lieved the conference would not b.
called on to 10 more than to ratif.
the plan submitted by the experts
which should not require more thai
one sitting.
The program for the day. which
Of course, was but provisional, call
ed for consideration Of the subjec
!, Of coal deliveries, the arrangement
made between the allies and Ger
many at Spa expiring on Jan. 81
} 1t was forecast that the allies woul
: endeavor to reach new decisio
on the subject as rapidly as posi-
D BILE, SO that Germany might be nc
J, titled before that date.
l German Reparadon.
I This business, once out Of tn
way, the conference would be IRE
E to devote all its time and energie
|, to the question Of reparation
which was evidently the most in
> portant to come before the meetin
Il and on which much depended. \
BRAND, it was asserted. owed h
y selection as French premier to II
:, fact that he was considered to
II the man who could most clear
i and convincingly plead the cau'
LOT France regarding reparstloi
n before the conference. The fina'
n cial and economic position
" France and the possible negoti
= tions of loans in America were Co
=. sidered in the reparations made
II the French cabinet tt lay Il
l. claims Of France before the salli'
II governments.
The contention of Premier Lilo.
J. George that the conference fix q
amount Of indemnity to be paid
le Germany, which is opposed by Pr
At mier BRAND, who holds that t
v amount Of the reparations be pa
OF the allies should be determin
W only ON the basis Of what Germa
can be compelled to pay. seem
n to be of such a nature that expt
"a German advice must be called up
rs for data. The discussion OF
lc disarmament of German citiz
st guards. and the reduction Of II
nations armed forces to the lir
fixed by the Versailles treaty a.
ne appeared to require the submissi
an of information on the exact sitl
1t tion. especially in Bavaria a
n Prussia