Evening star., 1924-08-31
Gives Assistant 48 Hours to
Get to Berlin and
Open Office.
O0RTMUND EVACUATION
IS ORDERED BY FRENCH
Five Weeks Allowed in Program
for Preliminary Arrange
mentS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 3O-The Dawes
plan really became operative at noon
today with the formal appointment
Of Owen ID. Young as agent general,
although technically and legally the
allies latest attempt to get repara-
tions from Germany will date from
Monday, September l. when the rep
aration commission will announce
that Germany has passed the required
laws and that the Germans and allies
have signed the agreement of Lon
don.
MIR. Young got into action i'm
mediately and started his assistant,
Leon trasier, to Berlin. giving him
4s hours in which to get to the Ger
man capital and open his Office.
Evacuation Ordered.
The evacuation of Dortmund and
the surrounding area has been or
dered by the French government in
conformity with Premier Herriots
promise to the German chancellor,
but the actual departure of he
soldiers will wait on the civil serv-
ices, which have long been installed
ana may take two or three weeks to
turn over their affairs to the Ger
mans were necessary, and shut up
shop as far as concerns Franco Bel
gian control Of the mines and factories
and general supervision of civil af-
fairs.
The cessation OF economic control
of the Ruhr and the delivery of the
complicated railroad system to the
Germans Will take several weeks
ne London agreement contemplated
that the first step should be taken
August Is and specified the dates on
which each stage must be completed,
out authorized the reparation COM
mission to hasten or delay the dates,
according to circumstances. Septem-
Der l will be the first date, and eight
days later the French and Belgians
must cease collecting customs be-
tween occupied and unoccupied Ger
many. Twelve days afterward, or by
September 21, the French and Bel
glans must have removed the restric-
tions on all traffic between the occu-
pied and unoccupied regions. and
they must restore various charges on
the population and regulations as
they exist in Germany proper.
Five Weeks Preliminarfes.
The Rhineland and Ruhr railroad,
however, will continue to apply its
present tariff, as the profits from it
So lHlO the (epdFdtlOn 1unQ aGmlQlS-
tered by Mr.. Young.
The plan gives five weeks for the
completion Of all preliminary arrange
ments.. such as forming an organiza-
ton for creating a bank of issue, or
ganiZing new railroad company.
deposlting railroad and industrial Sc
curlties with the Dawes plan officials
ana the negotiation of a contract as
surlng an 100000. .o00-mark loan. The
French and Belgians within two
weeks thereafter, or by October 20.
unity of Germany to the satisfaction
of the reparation commission.
Must Make UP Deficiencies.
The actual collection of -reparations
will begin Immediately. the Germans
paying 100000 marks Monday, and
the F'ranco-Belgians turning over
their collections 10 days later to Mr..
Young. Germany must make up any
deficiency in collections, so that the
agent general each month will re-
ceive one-twelfth of the annual repa-
ration payment to the allies.
Agent General Young and the other
officials appointed by the reparation
commission, NJ. Delacroix of Belgium,
Signor Nogara of Italy and Andre
MacFadyan of England, will go to
operations, and the reparation COM
mission in the meantime will com
plete the organization of the person
mel and ratify the various appoint
ments. 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 Ger
many.
Franace's relief at the final adop-
tion of the experts plan is somewhat
clouded by what Paris thinks is the
ominous attitude of the Nationalists,
for they consider that DR.. Marx and
the German government have surren-
dered to the reactionary forces and
they foresee disagreeable conse-
quenceS. All agree that the German
chancellor's disavowal of German
war guilt is dangerous, and the In
transigeant demands an allied reply
The inclusion of Nationalists in the
German cabinet, the Journal des
Debates predicts, means 1.-THE ultimate
sabotage" of the Dawes plan, and the
Temps regards their presence in the
government as likely to be consid-
cred IAN abuse of confidence" by the
bankers who are expected to float
German loan.
The Nationalists' maneuvers here
tofore have been taken calmly, but
the fact that they made the Marx
government compromise with them
has created a good deal of alarm, as
indicating that the reactionaries have
greater power than they have been
credited with.
LONDON PACT Is SIGNED.