Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-27
CUNo RESUMES DISCUSSION
 OF PREPARATIONS PROBLEM

Berlin, Dec 26.-(By the A. P.)-
 Chancellor Cuno, who had been spending
 the Christmas holidays with hi sfamily
 and friends in Hamburg, Setuaaed to the
 capital today and at onev -nsumeh adts-
 cussion of the reparations, problem witn
 the few ministers who were spending
 Christmas in Berlin. ..
 Although the government has not yet
 been officially advised from Paris that
 the entente premiers will be prepared to
 receive fresh of amplifled proposals the
 chancellor is determined to be equipped
 with ammunition of this, sort, and Ire puI-
 poses answering any summons with am-
 plifcations of his previous propositions and also with careflliy-fornIulated offer
 for the definite fixing Of :Ee reparatlon
 total based upon his present survey of
 Germany's econoimc and financial ca
 pacity.
 The chancellor, together with Finance Minister Hermes and Johannes Becker, minister of economies, has been occupied during the past ten days with lntimaTe conversations with indus.r;alists, bank CTS, shipping leaders anI representatives of importing and exporting industries, and has also kept the reicrstaS Ieaders and the officials of the genera! federation of labor unions informed of tho nature and progress of these cancellations.
 The chancellor also has called In the leaders of the nationalist parties, and the government for the time being may be said to have parliamentary backing, even | to. effect. an ultimate adjustment of the whole range of repara:ions problems
 The internal situation has been thor oughly canvassed during the progress of the current discussions, and the chan cellor believes he has succeeded in E1ob- ilizing every ounce of the nations pro ducetiye energy In response to his appeal 1 for eo-operation. ! The bulk of opinion, aoepars to be em- phatically in favor of the final fixation of Germanys separations obligations. Until this is done the govern cle1t it Is declared, will not be in a position to attack such urgent problems as the stabilizazion of'ife mark, currency contraction aud securing an equilibrium in the budget.
 This reiteration- of tho government's E attitude has brought out dec.eratIons of undivided support from all the party or rans, which are urging the chancellor to make 1t the pivotal point in hls program.
 There is. some doubt, nevertheless, whether the present international situa- ton is conducive to a final settlement.
 This is largely prompted by the indefinite results being obtained a. the Lausanne conference and the effect of this situation upon the relations betwssn London and Paris with respect to the continental En- terests of France and Great Britain. The American attitude toward the impending European decisions also Is an enigma to German political circles. as the news ! from Washington and New York con tinues to be obscured by frequent contra dietions.
 | 1Too.,,y1,,Ia cavn,apv iv ResL ro,nd;uc . out her year of trillions" her combined floating and funded de3r having already passed the thirteenth digit mark, whi!c 1 the amount of currency circulation will also have advanced to that figure by the end of the year. A conservative estimate | of her 1923 budget shows this also reach l ing a point above the tr;lIion., ,. ~