Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-03-24
NOTE To ALLIES
ASKS ACCOUNT INC
U. S. Demands Pay for Troops
on the Rhine.
JAPAN AND ITALY INCLUDED
Washington Issues Formal Statement
to Five Nations Demanding $241,-
00o,ooo-New Terms Given
Berlin by Allies.

Washington, March %. = Notes
Identical with that received in Paris
from the American government for
presentation to representatives of the
allies there are being submitted by
American diplomatic officials to the
governments of Great Britain, Belgium,
France, Italy and Japan.
This statement was made to-day at
the State department and disclosed for
the first time that japan and Belgium.
in ADDITION to the other powers, were
to be informed as to the American
position with respect to the demand for
payment of American RhineIand oc-
Cupation costs.
1t has been said by officials here and.
the view is expected to be found in
the note just dispatched, that Amer.
ican troops were sent into Germany at
the express request of the allied gov
ernments; thar under the terms of the
armiStice, to which the United States
was signatory, costs incurred by those
troops were to be paid on an aqual
footing with bills contracted by the
allied governments for similar services !;
that the American troops were sent
in without thought of obtaining any
privileges for the United States and
consequently the obligation for re-
endorsement for their maintenance is
solemn moral and legal duty.
v. S. Note Reaches Paris.
Paris. March 23.-The conditions I'M
der which the repar=tions commission
will grant Germany a partial mora
forum were announced.
They include perfect autonomy for
the Reichsbank and new legislation to
prevent evasion of German capital the
legislation is to be ready for applica-
ton upon fixed date.
The American note regarding the
payment of the cost of the army of oc-
cupation in Germany, addressed to the
European allies, reached the American
embassy here and was presented to the
! alIeS.
The note sets forth the American
attitude in clear and forceful terms.
Upholds Cannes Figures.
The PREPARATIONS commission upheld
the figures arrived at at the recent
Cannes conference for Germany's pay
ments in 1922-720,O 100000 geld marks
(S171 ,360,000) in cash and / 100000
gold marks (S345, 100000 in kind
The texts of the decisions of the
commission were Immediately forward
ed to Germany and the various allied
governments. They will be made pub
lie after these governments have re-
ceived them.
Near East Conference.
The foreign ministers of the allied
powers are in Paris to confer on the
Near Eastern situation. 1t was ex-
pected the first action would be draft
ing plan for an armistice between
Greece and the Turkish natiOnalists.
This would be presented forthwith to
the belligerents in an effort to fore
stall the expected spring offensive in
Anatolia.
The foreign ministers also are to
consider revision of the treaty of
Sevres in favor of the Turks. All the
allies are agreeable to revision, but
the French are represented as favor
ing rather more drastic changes than
the others.
Representative of both the Constant
tinople and AngOra (nationalisD gov
ernments are to emphasize their de-
sires in this respect.