The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-30
FRANCE READY TO SURRENDER
 TO OARBETRATION
Envoys Prepare COnlprO' mise Draft EmbOdy-
 ing New Terms

LONDON, July 29.-For the first time since the interalIied conference as sembled the French delegates tonight in dicated willingness to surrender, under certain conditions, th..r rgiht to sepa- rate action against Germany in case of reparation default, under the. Dawes plan.
 If the allies cannot unanimously agree whether a fragrant default has occurred, France is willing to let an arbitration board, on which there will be experts of the original Dawes com mission decide the question. One con dition is that German payments in goods be linked with the question of defaults and France acquire no rights relating to payments in kind which are outside the present reading of the Yer sailles treaty.
 These and other conditions the French experts tonight are embodying into proposal which, they hope will l end the deadlock. Since yesterdays pro. l ceedinRs which were marked by thf | timely intervention of Col. James A Logan, thB American observer, which | the delegates today characterized al l having saved the conference from pos sible breakdown, the French delegation | has been working to coordinate Colonel LoEan's suggestions with ideas of their OWE in an effort tosproduce a formula N Nhich will solve the problem of how default under the Dawes plan is to be declared and what penalties the allies intend to inflict therefor and at the same time satisfy the international bankers who will be asked to recon mend E40,OOO,0O0 to investors in order to launch the Dawes project.
 Whether these new French pro- posals, in which there will be de I5arture from the unyielding stand on separate action, will be acceptable to the other delegates cannot be fully de terminated until the draftis laid before the experts.
 But the American observers, who have an intimation of the conditions France expects to impose in view of her surrender of her jealousy guarded theoretic right to act as she deems necessary of Germany does not live up to the Dawes plan are not over con fident that solution has been found.
 When the conference hurriedly ad- journed yesterday the French asked for 24 hours to complete the propos- als. But tonight they were still in process of drafting.
 The meeting of the experts consid- ering this particular problem again has been postponed from 9:S0 o'clock tomorrow morning and will not be convened until the French indicate that their plans has been completed. Meanwhile the other committees have been unable to make much progress.
 In the present stages of this dead locked conference the American atti- tude seems veering toward that of France, instead of that of Great Bri- tain. Colonel .LOgan's proposal of yesterday was followed by an express sion of grateful appreciation on the part of the French delegates today {; but the American suggestion that the reparation commission be called into the actual proceedings in the present negotiations reused immediate Objec- tion from the British. It was the first time that Great Britian definitely had to refuse to fall in line with sugges- tiops for a possible way out of the difficulty.