Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
GERMANS HANDED
S24,OUD,ODO,O(DB BILL
Paris Reparations ParIey to
Begin Final Negotiations
on Monday.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 13.-The reparations
experts of the allied powers, who have
been studying revision of the Dawes
plan, today handed the German dele
cation the allies bill for reparations
for damages incurred in the World
War.
Actual bargaining between Germany
and the reparations creditors for a
final settlement of the last remaining
financial question between them will
begin in earnest Monday morning.
The amounts which the allied powers
still expect Germany to pay were put
before the experts this morning in a
formal document setting forth plan
of annuities which was said in French
circles to represent considerable sacri-
fees by the reparations creditors.
Read in Two Languages.
The document was read both in Eng
lish and French in the famous tea room
of the George v Hotel after which,
without comment or discussion from
any direction, it was decided to adjourn
until Monday morning at IL O'Clock
when a detailed discussion of the plan
and figures will begin.
The experts have kept the actual
figures a secret and discussion of the
figures was in large measure Spscula-
ton, but there was reason to believe
that the total payment asked by the
allies would be in the neighborhood of
100 ,000, 100000 gold marks (approxi-
mately $4,000, 900 ,000), payable over a
period of So years.
The actual present value of the bin
was believed to be in the neighborhood
of $12.500, 100000 This present value
is arrived at by calculating what the
allies owe in war debts and adding their
reparation claims less deductions sup
posed to have been made in the inter-
ests of reaching compromise. The ex-
perts will neither confirm nor deny the
$12 500, ,000, 900 figure, but certain indis-
cretions that have been committed make
it almost certain that the total will not
exceed that figure and is likely to be
somewhat under 1t.
Publication Is Considered.
The experts committee today was
considering whether 1t would be ad-
viSable to publish the actual figures and
thus put an END TO speculation concern
ing them. If it should be so decided
the document most likely would be
made public some time Monday.
The presentation of the bill came
aftern nine years of pickering as to its
size between the allied creditor nations
and Germany, the debtor. 1t repre-
sented reduction, it was believed, of
nearly 500 200, ,000, 900 under the maxi
mum of s125, 5,000, ,0O0,0 claimed by the
allies before the Versailles conference.
Germans Are Solemn.
The German delegation, headed by
DR.. Schacht, appeared promptly at
1880 am. for the meeting in the tea
room. There was about them all the
grim solennity of the opening session
Of the reparations conference on Feb
ruary.11.
One version of the bill current as it
was being presented was that it en-
tailed annuities rising progressively
from 1000, 900, 900 gold marks tabout
$3.50, 900 ,000) to 2,400, 900 900 gold marks
(about $500, ,oO0,0 ,000) at the end of 81
years, when they would fall to the
stationary 1,70o,0o0,000 marks (about
$425, ,000,000) for the remaining 81
years. The present Dawes plan annui-
ties are about $3.50, 600 900.