The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-20
France Urges United Military
Action to Force Terms.
Premiers Meet in England for
Weekend Conference.
BERLIN REFUSES ULTIMATUM
Gold Payment Impossible
Would Pay sin Kind"
Entente Chiefs May Also Re-
open Yap Mandate.


toms control set up by the allies in the
occupied zone for the collection of
duties under the penalties plan be-
came effective at midnight last night.
Passenger trains are being detained
ten minutes for the inspection of pas
sengers and their baggage.
London. April 20.-Allied policies
toward Germany were being drawn to
a focus today.
Faced with the necessity of reach
ing an agreement before May l, the
next two weeks promised to be filled
with conferences of the allied leaders.
The first of these will be held over
the weekend at the home of Premier
Lloyd Georges millionaire secretary,
Sir Phillip Sassoon, at Hythe.
France Feels Warlike.
Premier BRAND of France, accom-
panied by three generals, will en-
deavor to persuade Italy and Great
Britain that the only way to dispose
of the situation is to take military
action.
1t was recognized generally that the
supreme council either will agree on
drastic action to compel German OBJ
init to further discussions with the
Germans. France meanwhile is with
holding plans for calling new classes
to the colors.
Germans Threw Up Hands.
British authorities frankly won
dered whether Germany VIII supmlt I
new reparations proposals IN view OF
the uItimatum served on the govern
ment Yesterday demanding that the
country's metal reserves be stored in
the Rhineland which is under allied
control
mitted, Germans threw up their
hands and declared there was no use
in further negotiations.
May Consider zap, Too.
The Daily Telegraph discussing the
weekend meeting of Mr.. Lloyd
Ceorpe and M. BRAND, says: The
premiers may be able to find time to
exchange views on other topics, one
of which is the unfortunate misun-
derstanding regarding Yap.
THE supreme council will have 10
find a way out that will satisfy Amer
ica's mandatory" continues the paper.
'The japanese naturally think that
the supreme council ought to stand by
its own decisions, but they nave nc
inducement to drift into serious
quarrel with the United States over
this fragment of rock and sand in the
eastern seas.
France to Help United States.
'.F'rance, with no direct interest in
the matter and in strong sympathy
with President Hardings attack on
the League of Nations w WIN tntow 1to1, rei rel
weight on the side of the western re-
public. We shall probably use ouI
Influence with Japan, and satisfac-
tory solution may be expected. Iht
paper further disclaims any BRUSH
desire to use the Mesopotamlan man
Frfv Of q
States.
1--WE are not anxious to monopolizt
=. the worlds oil supply. the most OF
which is still in North America, says
the Telegraph. nor shall we untalTE Il,
use the opportunities offered to US by
our exceptional relations with the peo
les of the Euphrates BASIN
Germany Wants Loan First.
Paris. April 19.-The Temps toda!
publishes a dispatch under Cologne
date line giving what purports TO d.
propositions which the newspaper say
Germany will make to the allles Weo
nesday or Thursday.
According to the Temps German.
proposes to pay to the allies thre
billion gold marks during ten years
and also yearly payments equal I
one-fifth of the value of German ex
Dorts to allied countries during tn
preceding year
To reahze a part of the above in
IDENTITIES, says the dlSpatch, herman
proposes to issue an international loa,
of ten billion gold marks upon whicl
she is prepared to pay interest up t
5 per cent. The loan would be guar
anteed by railroad earnings and ais
by participation up to 20 per cent /
German private industries. German
then would be ready to discuss the to
tai of it's debt to the allies, accordin
TO the dispatch.
Pay ReparatiOnS "In Kind"
Germany also will offer reparation
in kind, saying German contractor
and labor would undertake to recon
struct a certain percentage of tn
work in northern France, and ais
that German industry would suppl
French owners whose property wa
destroyed with materials which woul
be paid for by bonds which the gov
ernment of Germany would deliver t
The Temps, in commenting on tn
dispatch. says:
Berlin is convinced that the propo
sitions will be rejected by the allies
but insists on presenting them pub
licly, hoping that a certain part c
opinion abroad will consider them SUI
ficieut to bring pressure to bear upo
the allies not to occupy the Rub
region"
Say Terms Impossible
Berlin, April 19.-While the Gel
man cabinet has not yet indicated tn
nature of its reply TO the reparatio
commissions demand that the Germa
gold reserve be transferred to som
point in the occupied zone. Presider
Havenstein of the reichsbank and til
financial writers summarily reject til
proposition. They take the groun
that the gold is not only the propert