The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-08-15
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Allies and Germans Getting
Together to Put Dawes
Plan Into Operation.
By EDWARD W. PIcKARD

BY EDWARD w. PickARD
HHANCELLOR MARX and his Ger
~ man. colleagues, called to London
to confer with the allies on measures
for putting the Dawes plan into OPP
Grafton, showed SO sincere desire to
reach an agreement that hopes for
the restoration OF Europe were high.
After being given a friendly reception
by Prime Minister Macdonald, Pre-
mier Herriot and the other allied rep
resentatives, the Germans were hand
ed the documents comprising the
plans adopted before their arrival
and were requested to examine them
speedily and make reply. This they
did, and their observations" regard
ing the work of the conference, co.
600 words in length, were submitted
the next day. In general, and sos far
as the Dawes plan is concerned, these
appeared quite satisfactory for a
starter and it was believed the COM
mittees of experts to which the Ger
man documents were handed for care
full examination would be able to re-
wise and alter them so that they
would accord with the British and
French proposals. The Germans re-
served the right to supplement their
first statement after more detailed
consideration Of the allied PROPOSE
lions.
Accompanying the German doou-
ments was a covering letter saying
that there were certain questions out
side the scope of the Dawes plan and
the conference which. must be settled,
Chief of these were the matter of the
military evacuation Of the Ruhr and
the personnel Of the German railways
In the occupied territory. Dispatches
from London said that the Frenchl
already had begun negotiating with
the Germans concerning the evacua-
ton of the Ruhr, offering to carry this
out If the Germans would agree to the
continuance of German ornaments by
the military control mission. Marx
also demanded that persons expelled
from the Ruhr be permitted to return,
and the French were willing to con-
cede this If the Berlin government
would agree not to prosecute those
Germans in the occupied region who
had co-operated with the forces of oc-
cupation.
David Lloyd George and other po-
litical opponents of Prime Minister
Macdonald have been attacking his
policy in the conference, but he has
held his own in the debates. He i'm
formed the. house of commons that If
the conference were finally successful,
these three agreements were to be ex-
pected:
/. An agreement between the Ger
man government and the reparations
commission regarding matters within
the competence Of the separations
commissions.
2. An agreement between the al
lied governments and the German gov
eminent regarding matters requiring
to be settled by direct agreement.
8. An agreement between the allied
governments themselves regulating
matters of interallied concern.
In the main Premier Herriot's
course was approved in France, es-
pecially his refusal to permit any dis
cussion of war guilt in the conference.
QUITE unexpectedly, the Anglo
" Russian conference, which has
been going on in London intermit-
tently for months, has resulted in a
measure Of success. Early last week
the British foreign Office announced
the parley had failed and was broken
of, but Macdonald at once got into
action, invited the Russians to re-
sumo the conference, and brought
about an agreement for the signing
of two treaties. one of commerce and
one general. Rough drafts of these
pacts were drawn up and initiated,
and the prime minister insisted on
signing them without waiting for the
approval of parliament. The treaties
were bitterly attacked by the OPPOSE
ton. David Lloyd George denounced
them as fakes"