The Washington herald., 1922-12-18
Germans Want America
to Arbitrate Indemnity.
By KARL II. Won WIEGAND.
Special Wireless to Universal Service.
Copyright. Is2e. by Universal Service.

Copyright. lSZS, by lnisefsai sefNcc.
BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE German
government has again, in effect, II
not in form. appealed to Washing
ton to take up the ungrateful role
of arbitrator in the apparently un-
sOlvable reparations problem which
IN keeping all Of Europe and
good part of the rest Of the world
In economic chaos.
This information comes TO Uni
versaI Service from quarters in
close touch with the Government.
According to reliable information
this step by Chancellor Cuno is in
the form Of instructions to Ambas-
rador WiedfeIdt at Washington, to
ask unofficially but carefully in
Washington and New York the
question which may be tersely
summed up:
What does America think Ger
many's capacity to pay may be esti
mated att?
KEPT IN MYSTERY.
Behind the diplomatic and flnan-
CiaI scenes on the foreign office
stages in Berlin. London, Paris,
Rome and Washington. tremen-
dous diplomatic PREPARATIONS battle
r. toing on. The conversations
er~ veiled in much mystery, and
every effort is made to keep Sc
cret the reports that pass between
Washington and the European
capitals, and between Paris. Lon
don. Berlin and Rome themselves.
France for the moment is fight
ing on the defensive in this struS
gle. according TO such reliable in
Hnrpnafiar 10 nl1fa ainAhlp
Chancellor Cuno who came into Of.
flee in Berlin with the promise that
he would initiate an active policy
on the repsrations question, has
kept that promise and to p certain
degree has succeeded in making the
subject Of reparations world
topic.
INSTRUCTION To ENJOYS.
DR.. Cuno and Foreign Minister
Rosenberg. II is stated. have in
ptruCted German amha ssadors and
ministers in various CAPITALS. in
Guiding Washington. tn discontinue
their na ssive policy and in their
talks with the governments 10 which
they are accredited. to emphe size
the gravity OF the economic situa-
ton in Europe in general, and in
Germany in particular.
The German view il that Ger
many's capacity to pay at present
Is almost nil. and that II Germany
r. ever to he put in condition to
paw she must he given mora
torium OF AT least two years. and
must he granted a loan, with the
reparations fixed at a sane economic
figure.
Frances 10 that Germany can but
will not nav. The attitude OF Eng
land and Italy is half way between
the ideas Of Germany and France.
T-a tn noon today IL was stated
that no reports had as vet been
received from Amba sssdor Wiedteldt
a. 10 what the result Of his conver-
cations with Secretary Hughes and
New York bankers has been.
In wilhelmstrassa II is declared
that the government has little out
side NJ newspaper reports so far.
Sometime this week tho float
ing deb, OF Germany will pass the
Immense figure Of one triliion
marks. The money press II said
70 have made another record for
sraed in the past week, and II is
stated that tomorrow's Reichsbank
report will show the new issue as
far exceeding hundred billion
marks
That in the face Of all this the
mark should have jumped into -
tremendous advance I'm New YorI;
created something Of a sensation
here. and has given rise to great
optimism in governmental circles.
with corresponding anxiety in
economic and financial quarters,
where this sudden disiointinz ri
ell business transactions in Ger.
many il viewed with more or less
alarm