Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05
Statesmen to Take Up Work
Commenced by Finance
Experts.
RHINELAND QUESTION
0BE THRUST TO FORE
Creditor Nations Are Facing Major
Problem in Fight Expected
Over Division.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
THE HAGUE, August 5-Representa.
tives of six governments gathered here
today, prepared to inaugurate tomorrow
conference which may write a CLOSING
, chapter to much of the postwar financ.
ing negotiations.
The conference is that which signing
Of the Young reparations agreement on
June 7 at Paris made necessary. That
four -month-long conference evolved a
plan for liquidation of Germany's bill
for the World War, but left a future
conference-that which begins here to-
morrow-itS application.
The problems in application of the
Young reparations plan principally are
problems involving political considera-
tions which the Young committee OF
financial experts considered it had
neither mandate to meet nor could at
tempt to meet without endangering the
work for which 1t did have a mandate.
Financiers First Conferred.
The conference at Paris in which the
Young reparations plan was evolved
was a conference Of financial experts
none OF them intimately concerned with
the government of his country. That
which begins here tomorrow is a con-
ference of statesmen and politicians.
They include among them such fig
ures as Phillip Snowden, British chan
cellor Of the exchecquer; Aristide BRAND,
French premier; Gustav Stresemann;
German foreign minister, and figures OF
similar import in the world of European
affairs. The United States is not rep
resented save by an observer.
Germany Seeks Modification.
Uppermost among the problems likely
to come before the conferees Is evacua-
ton of the Rhineland. Germany at last
is in a position to demand a modification
Of the military control which the allied
countries imposed in the years after
the arnistice.
France proposes to substitute a kind
Of Invisible control" which is nearly
as hateful to Berlin as actual occupa-
ton. The question may be fought out
and brought to tentative settlement here
WlChln the next TWO weeks.
Another foremost problem is essen
tally that of the creditor nations. and
not of Germany-that Is, the distribu-
from Germany. Britons consider the
tentative division agreed upon by the
Young committee sights British inter-
estS in favor of France. Phillip Snow
den. chancellor of the exchecquer, al
ready has served notice he will fight
for a revision of the distribution per-
centages.
Bank to Be Discussed.
Organization of the proposed inter-
national bank for the handling of the
reparationS payments also will come
up for some discussion. Opposition to
the proposed bank has materialized in
some quarters, where, 1t is contended,
the scope accorded the institution is
much too broad for safety.
The delegates meeting tomorrow are
ton of German liability granted by
the Young plan. but none of the pow
ers yet is committed to acceptance of
the proposals in their present form.
The British-French contentious are
typical. The British chancellor al
ready in Parliament has made his claim
Britain is the sole loser in the reduc-
tion OF German payments, due to re-
vision of the distribution percentages
arranged at previous Spa conference.
Housing Facilities Crowded.
The French counter contention is
that while under the various debt set
Elements England and the United States
would get payments from France and
Italy. even If German reparations should
fail, France herself can only look to
Germany for payments.
With gathering Of the delegations, ex-
tremely crowded conditions prevail here
The German delegation Of 10. which
arrived last night. for instance. was
divided between several hotels in two
towns, The Hague and Scheveningen.