The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-04
ENGLAND SEES
HOPE OF DEBT
MENACE GOING
Attitude of United States
Treasury on Allied Debt
Question Attracts Universal
Attention in London.
POINCARE PLAN SECRET
tBy Associated Pressl

PARIS, Aug. 4.-Premier Poincarc
will keep secret his proposed solu-
tion of the reparations problem until
he outlines it at the opening session
of the London conference next week
it was said in official circles today.
Prime Minister Lloyd Georges speech
in the house of commons last evening
altered NJ Poincare's decision to make
public his plan before the meeting,
it was said.
The French premier will leave for
London Sunday, accompanied by FL
nance Minister Lasteyrie and financial
experts
LONDON, Aug. 4-The attitude OF
the United States treasury department
towards the allied debt question indi-
Gated by Washington dispatches say
ing the Balfour note would not affect
the American policy towards the pay
ment of war debts, has attracted uni
versal attention here
This, together with the emphatic
statement by the chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in the house of commons that
Great Britain has no intention OF
suggesting any alteration of her inan-
cial obligations TO the United States,
gave somewhat new direction 10 this
mornings newspaper comment on the
question of inter-allied debts.
There was, on the whole, a less
anxious note to the editorials. The
prospect of next weeks conference
now tends to overshadow the Ralfour
note, and hope is eagerly expressed
that it will lead to some arrang
between the European allies which
will avert the ugly menace hanging
over the continent through the repara
tions and cognate questions.
Seek Wider Farley
Further hope is ventured that the
meetings will prepare the way for a
wider conference in which the United
States can participate. Referring to
this hope, the Daily Mail says the con-
ference in Washington for the funding
OF the British debt may assume
greater significance. and that Sir
Robert Horne, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, probably will be the prin-
cipal British delegate. 1t adds that
Ambassador Geddes is taking back i'm.
portant information regarding the
British view for communication to the
Washington government.
News dispatches from Paris to the
London newspapers today indicate
also some increase in hopefulness
through France, and the conference
which opens here Monday is conse
quently looked to with growing ex
pectations. Discussing the agenda Of
the conference, the diplomatic experts
of the Daily Telegraph say the earlier
impression that the Balfour note would
preclude examination of any project
for a broad settlement of the inter
allied debts is no longer widely held
and it is believed that at the very least
an explanation of this problem viii
be essayed.
Early Vote Possible.
The supposed division of opinion
in the cabinet regarding the British
policy toward the debt problem seem,
responsible for another revival of tn,
report that Prime Minister LloyC
George contemplates an early election
II is stated that if the conference
yields nothing of value and condition!
drift from bad to worse the premie
is likely to resort to dissolution o
parliament, with an election in th'
autumn
Speculation in this regard extend
in several directions. one idea bein.
that the policy of cancelling the Euro
pean debts regardless of her own deb
to the United States, will be adoptet
by Great Britain, but that the worl
of carrying out this program viii b,
transferred to ether hands, to b,
chosen bv the people