Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-15
Chancellor Marx
Awaits Home Word
On Ruhr Evacuation

ohuon' aug l4-(By A. P)--
tnanceilo Marx is awaiting instruc-
uons IRON Berlin before he can pro-
coed further with the NEGOTIATIONS
looking to a compromise on thr Ruhr
evacuation. The reparations confer
ence is at present deadlocked on this
question. The German delegation has
been advised that President Ebert
has called a cabinet meeting for to-
night. hut decision is expected before
tomorrow.
Up to midnight the French had re-
ceiVed no intimation of the chancel-
lors reply to the French contention
that the evacuation extend over the
period of year, to which the Ger
mans are opposed. 1t was planned to
send DR.. Luther to Berlin by airplane
tomorrow for consultation with the
German president. but latter it was
decided not to take this step.
The situation is decidedly easier
tonight as the French nave agreed to
many notifications Of their original
demands. While NJ. Herriot insists
upon a fiat understanding that the
military evacuation of the Ruhr need
not take place until one year after
the actual date on which the French
and Germans reach an agreement, he
offers immediate evacuation of many
important railway and industrial
centers. Mannheim, Dortmund and
many other so-called bottle neck
points which control the Rhineland
railways would be released immed-
lately and the troops withdrawn from
the eastern boundary of the Ruhr &C.
cupied district.
Also there have been limitations 20
the Germans that complete military
evacuation might be accomplished In
much less than a year If the terms
of the Dawes plan were faithfully
met. In fact the impression has been
created that practically all the
French and Belgian troops would be
out of the territory not held under
the Versailles treaty 3y January -,
when the British evacuate Cologne,
If the Germans show good faith.
The negotiations today between
NJ. Herriot, Chancellor Marx ana
Foreign Minister Stres"mann were
of a decidedly formal character
while the three men walked in the
beautiful garden of Premier Mac
Donald's Downing street home. 1t
was an exciting day for the confer
cnce delegates, as London was filled
with rumors of all sorts and the al
ternoon newspapers printed story
that the allies had delivered an ul-
timatum that the Germans must i'm
mediately accept the French de-
mand that military evacuation snail
not take place until year after
the agreement between the French
and Germans.
This bald story. without eXplana-
ton, and the various compromise
suggestions created much uneaslness
and made a crisis seem imminent
to the public. The American am
bassador Frank b. Kellogg, was
much annoyed by a printed state
ment that he was party to the ul-
timatum. and issued a denial.
The allied delegates in an unoffi-
cial capacity had personally urged
the Germans to reach an agreement
with the French and are not pleas
ed bv the statement that they issued
an ultimatum. as he fear that
statement of this kind may embar-
ass the German delegates with the
German people.
NJ, Herriot. Chancellor Marx and
Premier Thcunis are in conference
tonight swapping horses" on the
Ruhr evacuation, one delegate re-
marked, who knows much OF the
commercial negotiations which have
been running along with the Ruhr
discussions. If the Berlin govern
ment empowers the chancellor to
accept the French terms, the Ruhr
conferences can probably be conclu
ded within "A hours, according to
American observers.
Five protocols, embodying the
results of the inter-allied and inter-
national negotiations have already
been printed, with a blank space
left for final decisions on the Ruhr.
delivery and in kind and allied
railway employees on the German
lines. These protocols cannot be
signed Immediately upon an agree
ment being reached between the
Germans and the French, but must
be submitted to the French parlia-
ment for approval. Later If all goes
well. they will be signed by the
ambassadors of the various coun-
tries in London.