Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
GERMAN PROPOSALS
ON PREPARATIONS
SENT FROM BERLIN
Cabinet Drafts Reply to
Harding, but Reconsiders
It-No Indication That Of
fer viii Be Altered

PARIS, April 25.-(By the Asso-
cisted Press 1.-THE allied reparations
commission today sent note to the
German war burdens commission de-
handing that s1,O0o,0oo,O0O gold
marks be deposited in the Bank OF
France on or before April so.
BERLIN, April 25.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-The payment by Ger
many of 100000, 900, 600 gold marks
for reparations is, roughly, the pro-
posal submitted by Germany for
transmission to the allies, according
to sources close to the government
The payments will be spread over
a period Of from thirty to forty-two
years, or less, according to Ger
many's economic recovery.
Economic pledges in the way OF
goods and participation in German
Industries are offered as guarantees
IL is stated.
Germany's contemporaries on
reparations, it was learned To-Day
refrain from proposing the assump-
ton by Germany of the allied oePts
to the United States.
The reichstag will not be gwen
the text of the communication until
Tuesday. Foreign Minister Slmons
announced today he would merely
present to the reichstag this after
noon the status of Germany's for
eisn relations, not divulging the new
counter-proposals on reparations.
The offer. it is indicated. inclines
more toward the terms formulated by
the allies at the Paris conference last
, winter than to the offer made by
Germany at the London conference,
which the allies summarily rejected
The allies, under the decisions
reached in Paris in January, demand
ed that Germany pay 226,0O0, O0O,OOO
gold marks, or approximately $o6,-
500, o00, 900, the payments to be
spread over a period of forty-two
years.
Germany's exports, in addition,
would bear an export duty OF Il
ner> cent to go to the allies, for an
Identical period.
In the German counter proposals
submitted in London on March l.
DIR. Walter Simons, the German for
eign minister, offered what the al
lied EXPERTS estimated to amount to
snproximately s12,5O0, 100000. OF
which Germany claimed, S5.0OO,OOo,-
900 had already been paid. leaving
actual German offer about S7,5O0,-
600. 900. This offer was coupled with
the conditions that upper Sllesla
should remain German and that free
commercial privileges throughout the
world should be restored to Germany,
GERMAN PROPOSAL
EXPERIENCES DELAY
WASHINGTON, April 25.-There
has been an unexplained delay In the
transmission from Berlin of the Ger
man counter-proposals on reparatlohs
which were handed last night 10
American Commissioner Dresel at the
German capital State department
otficers had expected to have the doc
unent before them at the beginning
of business today, but when they
reached their offices they found that
n had not reached the department.
The German memorandum was un-
derstood to be a lengthy one and IL
such was the case it probably was
not put on the cables until very Iate
last night as considerable time woulu
have been required for codlng IT,
Probably an equally long time will De
necessary for it's DECIDING after IT'S
arrival here.
In advance of the receipt OF the
document, administration ofhclals ue-
clined to comment on its reporIeo
contents. nor would they Indicate
1,bether it would be made public I'M
mediately after it's arrival IL was
generally expected, however, that the
+ext would be withheld until Secfe-
,arv Hughes could confer with Pres
ident Harding and with the fle'i'li
and British ambassadors.
Anv action the American govern
,,ar+ NAV see fit to take in the mat
.ar of transmitting the proposals 10
the allies, it is understood Will De
determined only after conferences
between Secretary Hughes ana the
allied diplomatic representatives
here. This course has been decided
upon in order that the TRANSMISSION
will be "in a manner acceptable to
them and at the same time Will
guard against the assumption by the
United States of obligations which
might prove embarrassing
Secretary Hughes has made clear
that the American government does