Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-20

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 20.-Eforts to revive
the almost dead reparations conference
went on steadily today, but the prospect
looked exceedingly dark.
The Germans. were understood to be
willing to increase their reparations
offer slightly, but they were frank to
intimate that they saw no real hope
of the present conference reaching an
accord.
DR.. Hialmar Schacht, leader Of the
German delegation, has been talking
with Owen D. Young and the allied
delegates at informal conferences on
the situation. At the same time explor-
ing the possibility of a 1o-year agree
ment. He appeared at the Hotel George
v this morning and went into. confer
ence with Mr.. Young, Thomas w.
Lamont and two other reparations ex-
perts. He looked very grave and tired.
Blame Put on Germans.
The worldwide blame upon the Ger
mons fer wrecking the conference, as re-
ported in the press, or the Berlin cabi-
net's reported disapproval today seemed
to have softened the German flrmness.
The delegation, however. still asserted
that it was composed of independent
experts" They were neither taking nor
asking the cabinets instructions, they
said, and were seeking only solutions
which they, as experts and as Germans,
could approve.
Any compromise much above their
figures of 81 annunitieS of 1850, ,000, 600
marks (about $396,OO0,000), the Ger
mans asserted, could be made only Tor
political reasons and would have to be
made by the home politicians and not
by them, for, they repeated, they are
financial experts and are determined 10
promise only what can be done.
After his conference with the experts
at the Hotel George v this morning, DR..
Schacht left looking pale and worried.
He had spent an hour and half at the
hotel. The American experts would say
nothing of what took place and the
others dismissed questions with the uni
form answer, Nothing new"
The Havas News Agency says that
DR.. Schacht left for Berlin this after
noon. but will return for the plenary
session of the deadlocked commission
on Monday.
Must Draw Up Report.
While the hope that the conferences
might result in reopening OF the ne
gotiations existed, it was felt that it was
more likely the discussions would turn
toward consideration of how the repara-
tions committee shall announce terml-
nation of its work. It was stated that
at the outset the conversations OF the
allied and American experts showed
disposition to make it as easy as pos
sible for DR.. Schacht.
It was necessary. however, to find
some way to report to the governments
the failure of the committee to execute
its mission fully and it seems likely
this afternoon that the committee would
simply refer the whole question back to
the various governments involved. =.
The allied experts say that they VIII
In no circumstances pay the cost OF
compromise to make an agreement pos
sible. They declare that their demands
were scaled down to the lowest limits
and amounted to less than one-third OF
the original reparations debt fixed by
the reparations commission, and that
the German offer was less than quar-
ter of that debt The margin between
the proposals was SO big that one side
or the other must make big change in
its attitude.