Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-13
|ERL|N GR|NS OVER
BILL TO ALLIES
Germany oIoats at Prospect of
Embarrassment Caused by
Americas Demand
'D0MBsHELL," BRITISH SAY
BY the Associated Press

London. March 13.-Although Amer
iea's claim to priority of payment for
the upkeep of her army In the Rhine :
land las been featured in the news col
( umns, the first extended comment ap"
b peared only today.
The Morning Posts Berlin CORE.
sp0ndent says news of the American de-
mand was received there with undis-
guised satisfaction at the emharrass :
ment 1t was likely 10 cause the Allies.
The Tngliche Rundschau is quoted as
saying the moment has come for Ger
many to inaugurate nm active foreign
policy aiming at oblteration of the
freely Of Versailles.
The correspondent ascrih"s 70 the
newspaper the statement that. Ameri.
cas- antagonism to France being no
longer concealed. the German demands
are conquering the enemy world. In
(, conclusion. he quotes
Away with control commissions :.
Away with the rcparations betrayal
Away with the locust plague of armies
Of occupation Out Of your trench,
Herr Wirtb, and up to the count"r-at-
( tack!
"!America's EOmbshell''
The London Daily Chronicle. under
the caption "Americu'S Bombshell,' y
says:
reasonable, and If the practical effect
ts to make some of our continental
friends less jealous to prolong the oc-
cupation of German soil this would be
quite as much to the taste of British
public opinion as to American
The newspaper admits it may be urged
that, as the United States is not par
ftnn IN, hn ,t
1t has no claim to money collected un-
der that treaty and that the more cor
rect course would have been to claim
1t direct from Berlin under its own
treaty, but thinks the fact that Amer
ica undertook the Rhine occupation
jointly with the Allies does give her
some moral claim for joint reimburse
ment."
The Westminster Gazette. using the
same headline. says there is not much
doubt that every penny the United
States takes will have to come out of the
Allies share OF repnrations.
America has already intimated that
she thinks the whole reparatious ques =
ton proper subject for discussion NJ
Genoa adds the Gazette. "and we
may properly assume that this sudden
and unexpected insistencr on her rights
ts part of the same policy. and that
che wishes the curtain finally runr
down on the reparatious farce.
''Very possibly also She wants 10
take her troops away and considers
this a subtle way of pctsuodinc her
European associates TO speed the port :
ing ally.
'"This action bv the J'nitAd States
compels the Allies to face thr fact that
the cost of OCCUPYING German territory
IA altogether out of proportion to th,
debt for which the occupation is So.
curity and that the whole scheme o,
payments and sanctions needs to be sub
Htsntialiy revised -
Hehoa conference 10 10 Oh
- The COnhrence of British Frcnci
and Italian Foreign Secretaries in Pari,
to discuss the program of the Genoa
conference has been fixed definitely fol
March %. it was announced today. An
oficial statement also was given out
that the Italian Government had ac-
cepted April 10 as the date for the
opening of tho Genoa gathering. Thus
disposing of n run,or here during The In :,
two or three doys that the conference
would he obanGn~nd, owing 70 tho non :
nsrticination of tb. TniteJ STATES
-
Paris. March 13.-CBv A. Pl-ThC
decisions reached nv tho Allied Fiuanc,
Ministers Saturdov ~ to the distribu :
man rennrations novments nmonp III,
Allies nrobablv will he brought to th,
Gs1sss0n GorsoWs mteng ie 1ge for "sc"S''0" at '"