Evening star., 1924-04-13
Reichsbank and Krupp Heads
Agreed Report Offers
Real Settlement.
RUHR CLEARING RULE
MAKES O. K. CERTAINTY
Officials Hold This Point Compen-
safes for Less Appealing
Experts Findings.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, April 12.-Next Monday S
cabinet meeting with the premiers of
the German federal states will decide
whether the reply to the reparation
commission on the experts report
shall be made in writing or orally
through a special delegate to Paris
The majority of the premiers appear
to favor a written reply.
There is no doubt that the govern
ment will decide that the report
forms a basis for negotiations. The
committee of the economic council of
the reich already has discussed the
report AMI recommended its accept
ance on the lines laid down by DR..
Kurt Sorge of the Krupp Company,
chairman of the Association of Ger
man Industrialists, in his recent
statement. This set forth that the alb
solute prerequisites were the restora-
ton in full of Germany's economic SOW
ereignty over the occupied areas,
notably abolition of the F'ranco-Bel-
gian railway regime and the customs
barrier between occupied and unoc-
eupied Germany, and the raising of
an International loan
Sehacht Favors Report.
DR.. Hjalmar Schacht. president OF
the Reichsbank and federal commits
sioner of currency, declared today
that he view ed the experts report as
forming a satisfactory basis for
reparation settlement ne 5otiations.
The experts report to the repara-
tion commission is essentially an
American document" said DR.. Schacht
who was frequently called into con-
sultation by Gen. Dawes and his fell
low experts in the investigations
leading up to their report
TT is direct and businesslike. and
shows the great influence Messrs.
Dawes, Young and Robinson exerted, ''
he continued, 'and in my opinion is a
satisfactory basis for negotiations
looking to a settlement of the repara-
tion problem growing out of five
years of war and five years of post
war wrangling. which have resulted
in wasting five billion gold marks in
occupation costs.
Halls II uhr Decision.
The most essential section of the
report" DR.. Schacht added, 'fs
article 3, page T. which definitel ly
provides that the military occupation
of the Ruhr shall cease. That Sec
tion provides for clearing the atmos-
rhere of politics. sanctions and mill
tary penalties, and overshado'xs ala
other details in Importance"
1t paves the way for a discussion OF
economic problems in frank, open,
American man-to-man style, and !
hope that Gen. Dawes direct methods
will be followed in all the discus
sions.
Coal cannot be dug at the point of
bayonets and with militarism elm
mated from all the territory not oc-
cupied under the Versailles treaty the
depressions caused by the presence of
foreign troops win be wiped out and
Germany will be able to regain eco
nomic and industrial efficiency.
Thinks Amount too High.
DR.. Schacht said there were many
details of the report with which he
was not sympathetic. He thought the
amount asked from Germany was too
heavy and declared it a pity that an
actual moratorium was not provided.
He expressed the opinion that for
eigners were too numerous on the
provided in the report, but declared
that all these handicaps could be
overcome if article were literally
adhered to.
Asked how long it would require
to place the experts Recommendations
piled that it could be done in ninety
days or even less.
The scheme for mortgaging the
German railways, he said, was the
best worked out part of the report
and could easily be made effective
without extensive reorganization.
Addresses Reich Body.
Addressing a committee meeting
of the economic council of the reich
today, DR.. Schacht characterized the
standpoint of the experts that trans
fers or reparations abroad should
only be made when German exchange
would not suffer thereby, as the
keystone of the economic side of the
problem and as at last establishing
an automatic settlement in place of
political and military compulsion.
He described the report, despite the
heavy burdens it involved, as capable
of being discussed under two condi-
tions-frst, that Germany should re-
gain her economic freedom; and, sec
ond, that in event of fulfillment be-
ing impossible, military sanctions
should not be applied Immediately, but
that there should be instead a joint
consultation between experts on both
sides. He asserted that freeing the
reparation problem from politics and
militarism was viewed by the Ger
mans as an excellent thing and likely
to be of great importance in aiding
the resumption Of economic relations
between the nations