Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-02
ACTUAL OPERATION
Of DAWES PLAN
BEGINS IN EUROPE
French Order Ruhr Evacua-
tion-American Director
Takes Up His Duties

PARIS, Aug. 31.-By the Associ-
ated Press).-The Dawes plan really
became operative Saturday with
zoe S~rmal appointment of Owen ID.
Young as agent-general, although
technically and legally the allies lat
est attempt to get Preparations from
Germany will date from Monday,
September l, when the PREPARATION
commission will announce that Ger
many has passed the required laws
and that the Germans and allies
have signed the agreement of Lon
don.
Mr.. Young got into action imme
diately and started his assistant,
Leo1 F'rasier. 20 Berlin, giving him
4S hours in which to get the German
capital and open his office.
The evacuation of Dortmund and
the surrounding area has been or
dered by the French government, in
conformity with Premier Herriot's
promise to The German chancellor,
but the actual departure of the sol.
diers will wait on the civil services,
which have been long installed and
may take two or three weeks to turn
over their affairs to the Germans,
where necessary, and shut up shop
as far as concerns Franco-Belgian
control of the mines and factories
and general supervision of civil af-
fairs.
Requires Several Weeks
The cessation of economic control
of the Ruhr and the delivery of the
complicated railroad system to the
Germans will take several weeks.
The London agreement contemplate
ed that the first step should be
taken August Is and specified the
dates on which each stage must be
completed, but authorized the rep
aration commission to hasten or de-
lay the dates according to circun-
stances. September 1 will be the first
date, and eight days later the French
and Belgians must cease collecting
customs between occupied and I'M
occupied Gerplany. Twelve days aft
EDWARD, or by September II, the
. Preach and Belgians must have re-
moved the restrictions on all traf-
fic between the occupied and unoc-
cupied regions, and they must re-
store various charges on the popu-
latlon and regulations as they exist
in Germany proper.
The German RhineIand and Ruhr
railroad, however. will continue to
apply its present tariff, as the
profits from it go into the repara-
ton fund administered by Mr..
Young.
The plan gives five weeks for the
completion of all preliminary ar
rangements such as forming an or
ganization for creating bank of is
j sue, organizing a new railroad COM
pany, depositing railroad and indus
trial securities with the Dawes plan
officials and the negotiations of
contract assuring an eight hundred
million mark loan.
Invaders Must Get Out
The French and Belgians within
two weeks thereafter, or by October
20, must restore the economic and
fiscal unity of Germany to the salts
faction of the reparation commits
sion.
The actual collection of repara-
tons will begin with the Germans
paying $20.000,000 marks Monday
and the Franco Belgians turning
over their collections ten days later
4 to Mr.. Young.
< Germany must make up any defic
iency in collections, so that tbs
agent-general each month will receive
one-twelfth of the annual reparation
payment to the allies.
Agent-General Young and the
other officials appointed by the
reparation commission. M. de La
Croix, of Belgium; Signor Nogara,
of Italy. anA Andrew MacFadayan,
Of England will go to Berlin We'd
nesday ready to begin operations
and the republic commission in the
meantime will complete the organi-
zation OF the personnel and ratify
the various appointments. Most of
the staff will be drawn from the
commission itself and the expenses
OF that body will be trimmed so that
the experts plan will not add any
expense for Germany.
French PesSimistic
Frances relief at the final adop-
ton of the experts plan is some
what clouded by what Paris thinks
is the ominous attitude of the ma
tionalistsS for they consider that DR..
Marx and the German government
have surrendered to the reactionary
forces and they foresee disagreeable
consequences. All agree that the
German chancellor's disawoval of
German war guilt is dangerous and
the Intransigeant demands an al
lied reply.
The inclusion of nationalist in
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