The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-28
SUPREME COUNCIL TO DECIDE
ON NEXT COERCION STEPS IN
EMANCIPATION MUDDLE

could not be iloated at 4 per cent. ac-
cording to the German terms.
One concession Germany now makes
/ is that if the payment of $4,000, 600, 900
marks is accepted she will not ask
deduction for the payments already
made, except aS to money expended
to re-habilitate northern France
/ M. JaGpar, the Belgian foreign min
lister, and M. Theunys Belgian minis
ter of finance, had conference here
this forenoon with Louis L.eucheur,
French minister for the devastated re-
gions, and afterward conferred with
Sir Laming Worthington Evans, Brit
ish secretary of war and Edwin s
Montague, secretary for India. Later
the Belgian representatives were quot
ed by Reuters limited as stating lin
the most emphatic manner that they
had been unanimous in the decision
that the latest German proposals were
not ever worthy of discussion"
M. Jasper and M. Theunys said
there was o ne figure in the proposals
which Germany had advanced in de-
liberate attempt to deceive the public
600 gold marks which they offered the
tiIlNS. ZIG l)ClS1 ut'ILit GU llllS llSS
ure was entirely misleading The only
real figure the Germans were Offering,
they said, was $4,000 900, 900 gold
marks, with rate OF interest at per
cent. which today could only be de-
scribed as ridiculous.
TO arrive by this method at the to-
tai of 100000 100000 gold marks pay
mcnt at so small Il rate of interest, /
Il l,,,,y L., 4
so years, which arrangement, the Bel
gians declared, would be equivalent
to no payment ut all
The nifty billion gold marks did not
represent one-half the sum fixed by
the Paris conference, he asserted.
France Thanks America
London, April 2S.--It was an
rounced by Reuters Limited today il
had learned that France had instruct
ed Ambassador Jusserand. in Wash
ington, to thank the United States
government for it's assurance that the
United States would not deliver. the
German Preparations not without the
approval of the allies
Germans Are Uneasy
Berlin, April 2S.-Possibility that
the German reparations proposals
may be rejected was reflected in press
comment on the situation here today,
the Vorwaerts saying that, in all
probability, the German government
would be called upon to further alter
its terms if it hopes to achieve sue
cess with them.
"rhe government" the newspaper
added, has taken stony path and |
has not yet arrived at its end"
Theodore Wolff, writing in the Tage- (
blatt, approved OF the address of DR. !
Walter Simons, foreign minister, be-
fore the reichstag, saying the tenor
of the minister's speech was adapted
to American acoustics
America will render the cause of
humanity an i unreasonable service if
she lends practicable hand in an
endeavor to stave off imminent eco
nomic collapse. says the Dutch All |
geneine Zeitung, the property of Hugo
SHINES. the German industrial mag
nate
IF Americas efforts fail because of !
French obstinacy, then the latter must |.
bear the responsibility of the disaster
which is bound to follow.
The industrialist organ Der Tag
did not share the ptimism expressed |
by DR.. Simons in his address before
the Rechstag, during which the min
lister said Germany would "enter the
promised land of fSeedom when the
last annuity was paid"
This parable" said the newspaper.