Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-27
REPARA TONS IS
BEFORE MEETING
GERMAN CABINET.
Bulk of Opinion in Favor of
Final FixationA of Nation S
Preparations Obligations


ciated Press. )-Chancellor Cuno, who
had been spending the Christmas holt
days with his family and friends in
Hamburg, returned to the capital to-
day and at once resumed discussion of
the PREPARATIONS program with the few
ministers who were spending Christ
mas in Berlin.
Although the government has not
yet been officially advised from Paris
that the entente premiers would be
prepared to receive fresh or amplified
proposals, the chancellor is deter
mined to be equipped with ammuni-
tion of this sort and he purposes an
swering any summons with ampliflca-
tions of his previous propositions and
also with a carefully formulated offer
for the definite fixing of the repara-
tions total, based upon his present
survey of Germanys's economic and
financial capacity.
The chancellor, together with Fin
ance Minister Hermes and Johannes
Becker, minister of economies, has
been occupied during the past 10 days
with intimate conversations with in
dustrialists, bankers, shipping leaders
and representatives of importing and
exporting industries and also has kept
the reichstag leaders and officials of
the general federation of labor unions
informed of the nature and progress
of these consultations.
The chancellor also has called in the
leaders of the nationalist parties,
among them DR.. Karl Helferrich,
Count Won Westarp and Professor
Otto Hoetszch, and the government
for the time being may be said to
have parliamentary backing, even to
the inclusion of the United Socialists
in its determination to effect an ulti-
mate adjustment of the whole range
of Preparations problems.
Whether the fixation which the gov
eminent proposes to indicate in its
forthcoming proposition will be an
nounced beforehand is uncertain as
yet, as are other cardinal features of
the impending offers.s
The international situation has
been thoroughly canvassed during the
progress of the current discussions
and the chancellor believes he has
succeeded in mobilizing every ounce
of the nations productive energy in
response to his appeal for co-opera-
ton.
The bulk of opinion, as reflected in
informal talks with officials and par
Elephants I'm the conference, appears to
be emphatically in favor of the final
fixation of Germany's PREPARATIONS
obligations.
Until this Is done the government,
it is declared, will not be in position
to attack such urgent problems as the
sterilization of the mark, currency
contraction, and securing an sequilib-
rum in the budget.
This reiteration of the governments
attitude has brought out declarations
of an undivided support from all Of
the party organs, which are urging the
chancellor to make it the pivotal point
in his program.
There is some doubt, nevertheless,
whether the present international sit
uation is conducive to a final settle
ment. This is largely prompted by
! the indefinite results being obtained
at the Lausanne conference and the
effect of this situation upon the rela-
lions between London and Paris with
respect to the continental interests OF
France and Great Britain. The Amer
lean attitude toward the impending
European decisions also is an enigma
to German political circles, as the
news from Washington and New York
continues to be obscured by frequent
contradictions.
Meanwhile Germany is fast round
ing out her year Of trillions"-her
combined floating and funded debt
having already passed the thirteenth
digit mark while the amount of cur
rency circulation also will have ad-
| Vanced to that figure by the end OF