Evening star., 1923-01-03
POincareTOldtO
! Stand Firm by
Cabinet.
PREMIERS SEEK
TO SHIFT BLAME
Farley Split-Up May
Come During This
Afternoon.

Fr the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 3.-The allied
conference on reparations ad-
inurned this evening until
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon, thus
avoiding the immediate break
which had been expected I'm many
quarters.
PARIS, January 3.-The allied con-
ferees met this afternoon for their
second session, with the delegates ap-
pcaring in anything but a cheerful
mood. Prime Minister Bonar Law
seemed particularly depressed.
More than two hours after the
opening of the session the doors OF
the conference room were still closed
and no indication of the trend of the
discussions was available.
Later it was learned that Premier
Poincare had occupied two hours IN
explaining the French position TO the
conference. after which tea was
served to the delegates. The impress
sion gathered from Prime Minister
Bonar Laws opening remarks, when
the conference was resumed after tea
was that he desired to avoid
rupture of the conference and was
The session opened with Premier
Poincare in the chair. and with the
am AMBASSADORS and experts waiting in
/ adjoining rooms. as they were yes
tcrday.
rstcrs this morning instructed Pre-
lniPr Poincare to move in the confer
cuce this afternoon the adoption of
fae French reparationS plan as the
minimum acceptable to France. In
hn
rept that plan Premier Poincare was
directed TO ask the conference to
rcgister formally lack of agreement
among the allies. '---'7 e---".zss
cIairmanship Of President Millerand.
denied unanimously that the British
reaarations plan was an abandon
r1ent of the treaty of Versailles.
British Plan Rejected.
Premier Poincare after the cabinet
meeting said the British plan dis
pleased everybody. not onlv the French.
hut the Italians and the Belgians. and
-hat the rrO0oSal that the Bank Of
England put its hands on the gold left
there by allies as security for loans
raS alarming.
French plan was the minimum accept
able to France and represented the
maximum of concessions France
would make.
Premier Poincare after the meeting
continued to receive important mem
hers OF the government. among them
Louis Barthou. president or the rep
arations commission: M. Reihel. MIN
sister of liberated regions. and Finance
Minister De Lasteyrie. in preparation
for his declaration to be made tc the
conference at the o'clock meeting.
In this announcement the French
rrer,fer is expected to declare that
4hc British plan demands or france
that she give up every guarantse sns
has that anv ARRANGEMENT adopted
will be carried out by Germany.
british Make Plans.
The British premier planned to speak
at the allied meeting this afternoon and
tell Premier Poincare that the British
we're willing to discuss the French
plan If the British and other plans
were discussed at the same time.
If NJ Poincare should refuse to eX-
anime the British plan further Mr.
Bonar Law. according to the present
decision, will announce that the BRUSH
see no need for further conference.
Members of the British delegation
said after their meeting they had no
false hopes as to the outcome or the
conference. Tt was remarked that the
British and French plans seemed al
most hopelessly divergent.
The British delegates, in deciding
to accept the French reparations plan
as a basis for discussion, provided
Premier Poincare agreed to discuss
the British plan, will seek to place
the burden of responsibility for a
break up OF the conference on the
shoulders of Premier Poincare.
The atmosphere of gloom at the
foreign office this morning was as
deep s, If not deeper than last night,
and an abrupt end of the premiers'
conference, was freely forecast. Doubt
was expressed that the statesmen
would even decide to hold another
conference.
The conferees. as LIE Matin re-
marks, in showing their full hands
At the opening session yesterday-a
proceeding never adopted at previ-
Gus conferences-have made It ex-
ceedingly difficult to bridge the vast
and those of the French and Italians.
The British were understood to
have proposed cancellation of to-
days plenary session in order that
The experts and committees, but
Premier Poinoare opposed such a
step. He believed that the plans
were SO radically different that they
Slay Consequently. the session sched-
uled for this afternoon was expected
30 assume capital Importance.
Paris Comment Moderate.
The British prime minister begged
4he correspondents to keep calm and
not aggravate the conference diver
Eencies, by indulging in political COM
ment. The French press, at least
compiled, with the result that the
newspapers are moderate in their ref
erences to the outlook.
The journals are Of course unan.
tnous In declaring that the British
plan cannot be accepted. LIE Matir
sptly sums up the views OF all when
j. says: The moral which emerges
from the first shock OF the rival views
bs that there can be no understandings
without mutual concessions, but the
plan brought by Mr.. Bonar Law to the
conference yesterday represents a
notable withdrawal from what other
British ministers have suggested in
She past"
The destiny of Turkey and the near
Hast is tied up to some extent with
this conference, because the French
government is disposed to subordi-
nate the Lausanne negotiations to the
vital Importance of the future rela-
lions of the allies with Germany.
! Mr. Bonar Laws reluctance to dis
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