New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
france Agrees
To Meet Allies
On Rullr Policy
u
Three Premiers May Seek
Accord in London as a
Preparation for Brussels
Conference ON Indemnity
Paris Denies Seizure Plan
Poincare Ready TO Order
Customs Gordon if Farley
Should Result il, Failure
spec.o1 Cable 10 The Tribune

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PARIS, Nov. 20.Premier Poincare
to-day notified Premier Bonar Law
| that he is willing to go to London to
discuss the Brussels conference early
next week. His message was in re-
sponse to the British Premier's state
ment that he would be .nablo to leave
London in the first half of December.
The French government is all the
moro eager to hold preliminary meet
ing since numerous reports, officially
branded as false, have been published
that France is preparing to seize the
Ruhr and part of the Rhineland. The
Quai n'Orsai to-day asserted that
France has not even envisaged the
possible failure OF the Brussels con-
ference, and the government is certain
workable solution to the reparations
question will be found there, since all
concerned have a strong interest that
Che problem be solved.
France Still Holds a Trump
Although the government may not
have iscussed recently an isolated &C
tion in the case of downfall Of the
Brussels negotiations, it is we'll es-
tablished here that France still is
holding a trump card in the form Of
plans drawn up last July by Marshal
Foch creating a Gordon of troops as 4
customs barrier around the Ruhr.
Do;. b. IL
into effect last August at the London
conference with Lloyd George, but he
decided then to exhaust all efforts to
induce the Allies to make common
cause in the fortnight handling Of
the intertwined reparations and debt
questions.
The emphasis placed by the French
Government on denials that it is now
contemplating independent military ac-
tion is believed here to indicate that
Poincare again is determined to ex-
haust diplomatic means to gain his
ends.
Military Gordon Last Plan
He is understood to have developed
three successive formulas. The first
is to attempt to bring about common
policy at Brussels. In the event of
idlihiS lHChCJ ht Will IulIlleQlGlSiy
seize the state mines, forests and
other state property on the left bank
Of the Rhine, as we'll as the tax re-
ceipts in the Rhineland provinces. If
the second plan is found Insufficient to
meet the reparations schedule, Foch
will be ordered to apply his Ruhr cor
don.
There is strong desire amounting
to determination on the part of the
French government to hold the Brus-
sells conference before the end of the
year. because Germany's first payments
to France fall due in mid-January. Il
is believed that Germany will be unable
to meet the schedule, and Poincare
wishes to know in time whether he may
count on a united Allied policy or must
proceed alone.
LONDON, Nov. 20 (By The Associated
Press,)-A meeting of the British,
French, Belgian and Italian premers
Is contemplated to be held here next
week to reach preliminary agreement
in preparation for the Brussels con-
ference on reparations and inter-Allied
debts.
Premier Poincare desired to have
the meeting held in Paris, but Prime
Minister Bonar Law was unable to GO
and the French Premier consented to
come to London.
Premier Mussolini of Italy has not
yet accepted the invitation. but since
he was willing to go to Paris he is not