Evening star., 1922-05-31
OPPOSING
GERMAN PLEDGES
Third of Chamber Against
Acceptance of Reparations
StipuIations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. May 31.-Sudden opposition
to the reparations commissions ar
rangement with Germany developed
among French deputies today, and
word reached the comm ission when
it was ready to begin its session this
afternoon that a third of the cham
ber of deputies was opposed to ac-
cepting the German reply to the COM
missions proposals.
The commission had intended. IL
was said. to inform the committee Of
international bankers who are con-
sidering a foreign loan for Germany
that the reply. with certain expected
view Of the French parliamentary op-
position 1T was considered doubtful
whether the French member of the
commission. Louis Dubois, who also
is president. would feel inclined to
act without further consultation with
the French government.
German Promise and Pro>iso.
The German reply promises to com
ply with the conditions imposed by
the reparations commission, with the
proviso that Germany must have aid
in the form of a foreign loan. The
commission has insisted upon uncon-
citional compliance, but the question
Of the loan is considered a detail
that will be arranged without COM
plications. The reply dealing with
this question says:
The German government. deter
mining to make the most strenuous
endeavors to prevent any further in
crease in the floating debt. are. how
ever, convinced that in the present
financial conditions such efforts can
not be carried through unless Ger
many receives reasonable assistance
in the way Of foreign loan.
Prescribe Basis Of Action.
provided such assistance becomes
available without undue delay. the
German government will undertake
to deaf with the matter on the fol-
lowing basis:
The amount of the floating debt
as it stood on March 81, 1922. is from
now on to be the normal maximum.
II at the END OF June or at the end
of any subsequent month the amount
will be taken to secure repayment of
the excess. within three months fol-
lowing by means Of excess receipts or
by raising credits otherwise than in
the form of giving rise to fduciary
imitation"
The German government promises
that in case the maximum is exceeded
again ii will endeavor to impose new
taxes, sufficient to make up the diff
ference. Pending the receipt of the
proposed foreign loan. however. the
government asks that the floating
debt may be increased in paper
marks to the equivalent of payments
Of foreign currency. made and to be
made since March 81 under the terms
of the treaty of Versailles.
Doubt as to Condition.
The condition imposed in the reply
that Germany must have help from
foreign loan was Arst thought TO
be a mistake in the French transla-
tion, since German text was inter
preted as expressing the mere hope"
that this help would be given In
Quiry in Berlin. however, developed
the fact that the German government
intended to make that proviso.
The impression made by the Ger
man reply was not unfavorable. il
was said at the French foreign Office
this afternoon unofflcially.
The Temps remarked that the re-
ply was silent on the question of a
forced loan which was expected to
produce 10000, 100000 marks, but the
newspaper forecast its acceptance by
the reparations commission.