The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-11
WILL NEG0TIATE WITH LEADERS IN RUHR PERSONAL
Paris Disappointed At Latest Move Of Germany, Which
 Is Regarded Insufficient

PARIS, oct. 10.-(By Associated Press. )--The reparation problem as whole is still where 1t was before the German government announced ces- sation of the passive resistance in the Ruhr. This is the conclusion in French officials circles after todRy's visit to the French foreign office of Herr Von Hoesch, the German charge daffaires.
 Herr Won Hoesch told Premier Poin- care he was instructed to open direct negotiations between the Berlin and Paris governments and to offer Ger many's cooperation toward the re- sumption of the normal economic life of the Ruhr.
 The Germans are credited in French circles with being ready tC negotiate only in order to have hand in the R~hr regime now that the resistance has ended and Premier Poincare told the German envoy that, inasmuch as negotiations were in progress between the allies and the groups of indus -triaiists and labor leaders in t,ie Ruhr, he did not consider it advisable to undertake further conversations 7 with Berlin on The same subject. When Germany was ready to make proposition covering the entire rep aration question he would be glad to consider 1t.
 
 1. No Progress Seen.
 The communications made at Brus- sels on Monday and i Paris today on behalf of the Reich are regarded as making no progress whatever to- -Ayard 2 final solution of the problem. "A real gain, however. it is held, has been made toward material results from the Ruhr occupation in the agreements reached directly with the Ruhr industrial leaders and the allies will center their attention upon such agreements until they receive some- thing more promising from Berlin.
 What the allies are expecting from Germany, it is pointed out, is pro- posal for such arrangements as will furnish the guarantee they require before formally consenting to moratorium. This was the real ques- rion up for consideration at the time Great Britain and France broke on their reparation policies and 1t Is still regarded as the uppermost ques- tion, although 1t has been obscured by the more recent events.
 The reparation commission still has the moratorium proposition on its calendar and everybody, including Premier Poincare, is said to recognize that such financial relief must be formally accorded for q fixed num- Der of years.
 The French Theory.
 The French theory is that the Ger mans desire to enjoy the benefits Of a moratorium without accepting any of the conditions the allies proposed as indispensable, hence the absence from the communications to the Fran co-Beigians of any hint that Berlin is getting ready to make general reparation proposal or institute the reforms that France and Belgium have insisted upon.
 There is a strong suspicion here that the idea in Berlin is to seek eco- Germans some return for the advan- tages which may be gained from the Ruhr occupation by the allies when the industrial activity there is re- vived.
 The activities of Hugo Stinnes. -efefnan industrial magnate during the last week, are responsible in some measure at least, it is intimated. for tie caution displayed by M. Poincare. Stinnes is understood to have en- deaN ored to get General Degoutte to impose an increase in working hours on the Ruhr employees, but the allied commander, acting on instructions from Paris. refused to have anything to do with it, telling Herr Shines that the French government was de- termined not to interfer in purely domestic questions. This, it Is said at the foreign office, did not prevent the Shines newspapers from report ing that it was the French who wanted to impose the longer work ing hours.