The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-16
MAY FIND A WAY
United States Wishes To Be
Helpful in ReparatiOns Crisis.
Course of Action, However,
Must Depend on Future.
SITUATION BECOMING ACUTE
Living Costs and UnemplOy.
ment Increases in Germany.
BeIgium's Payment, Due De-
cember 10, Just Received.
SITUATION BECOMING ACUTE

Paris, Dec. 16.-The allied repara-
tions commission received today q
German treasury bond to the amount
of 52,0s7.564 gold marks in settlement
of the last monthly payment due De-
cember Is, according to the schedule
agreed upon last August for meeting
Belgium reparations claim.
These payments were supposed to
be for 6O.OOO,0OO gold marks each,
due the fifteenth of each month since
August. The discrepancy between the
latter sum and the amount received
today was represented by credits given
Germany for certain deliveries in kind.
u. s. Course Uncertain.
(By the Associated Press)
Washington, Dec 16.-Light on the
course of administration efforts to find
a way to make American help avail
able to Europe in connection with the
lacking today except for warning
that press discussion seemed inclined
to exaggerate the degree of progress
made.
1t was indicated very clearly that
decisions vital to the employment of
American influence in the reparations
tangle still were in the future so far
as he Washington government is con-
concerned.
Seek Way To KeIp.
There was no tendency, however. to
withdraw in any way from the reiter-
ated declaration that the United States
government is anxiously seeking a way
to be helpful in the crisis.
Further information concerning
Germany's acute economic situation
received today in official dispatches
disclosed a rapidly Tightening credit
condition with n resultant increase in
prices and shortage in essentials.
The reichsbank has increased its re-
= hos
instituted strict supervision of all re-
discount operations in an effort to
curtail credit demands.
Floating Debt Increases.
A tremendous increase in the Ger
man floating debt, now aggregating
l,16S, oct Gee eco naarlzs~REas reported
OF this total S39, 9,000,000,000 in the
treasury bills have been rediseounted
a fact showing, according to officials
here, the straits of the government
finances. The reichsbank note circu-
lation at the beginning or TINS month
amounted to 754 0O0,0o0.oOOi marks,
1O1, 1,OOO,000,000 larger than it was
thirty days previously.
Living costs have taken unprece-
iented bounds upward and unemploy-
ment is increasing at a rate that was
said to be causing alarm Many work
srs were said to be preparing to mi
crate.
France Is Interested
(By the Associated Press.)
Paris, Dec. 16.-The French govern
ment would examine carefully and ap-
preciatively any proposals made by the
American government which might
prove helpful in obtaining reparations
from Germany, it was said today in
connection with reports from Wash
ington that such proposals were being
considered.
Premier Poincare's plea to the
chamber for a truce in party strife be-
cause of pending foreign negotiations
resulted in the chamber expressing
confidence in him by a vote of 512 to
76 early today
London Is Doubtful.
(By the Associated Press.)
London, Dec. 16.-The diplomatic
and financial experts of the London
morning newspapers are of the gen.
eral opinion that the rumor of an
American or international loan to Ger
many runs far ahead of the fact Re
ports of possible financial assistance
to the Germans together with the de-
parture of Ambassador Harvey to
next week and intimations
that the Harding administration is dis
posed to exert a helpful influence in
European affairs. attract wide atten-
lion here and Washington and New
Y ork dispatches bearing on these
questions fill the leading columns of