Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-23
debt PARLEY FA|LS
IN TASK OF FIXING
BERLIN OBLIGATION
Report of Disagreement Be-
ing Drafted for Respective
Governments.
LAST MINUTE OFFERS
BY GERMANS POSSIBLE
Feeling Is General in Paris, How
ever, That Breakup Is
Near at Hand.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 23.-The reparations
experts again failed in their efforts to
ind a solution for the long pending
reparations problem and began winding
up their work today
The final work" of the committee,
in the words of an official communique,
began with first efforts to agree on the
points to be incorporated in report of
the failure to the Reparations Commits
sion and to teh interested governments.
Today's plenary session, postponed
from yesterday because of the late re-
turn of DR.. Hjalmar Schacht after a
consultation with the German govern
ment at Berlin. opened in the midst of
rumors of further negotiations between
the Germans and the allies, but COM
munique issued after adjournment gave
no indication that these negotiations
were likely to change the situation.
Report to Be Drawn.
The text of the communique pointed
out clearly that the experts disagreed
not only on the proposed reparations
settlement, but upon the terms in which
that disagreement shall be officially re-
ported. Nevertheless, it was decided
that the principal experts shall go to
work on a report concerning the points
that are not disputed while the delega-
tions continue to exchange views as 10
the contested features.
The Germans still appeared to cling
TO hope OF reopening talks concerning
the main question of an agreement on
reparat!onS payments, but the French
and Belgians remained impassive, ap-
parently determined to make no move
themselves nor 10 encourage any steps
by any one else unless the German eX-
pertS should raise their offer very close
to the French and Belgian figures.
Outside Of the German group there
was no one who thought any further
useful discussion could be held on any,
thing else but the final report.
Those who took up the question of
how this report should be framed and
what it should contain were DR..
Schacht, Owen d. Young, Emile
Moreau, Emile Francqui. Commandatore
Pirelli, Kenso Mori and Sir Josiah
Stamp. -e.-,.s.
Scope Of Report Debated.
Some of the experts wanted brief
statement of the failure of the COM
mittee to accomplish the task COM
mitted to it. Others wanted full
report of everything that went on dur
ing .he life of the committee. There
was third tendency, believed to have
American representatives behind it, to
select for the report what was signifi-
cant and useful for future reference,
leaving out everything that could serve
no other purpose than to establish
responsibilities or lay down points Of
policies
The report was thought most likely
to comprise the whole scheme for an
international bank and the reports of
the subcommittee on deliveries in kind
Whether the three memoranda that
form the basis of the real work of the
committees figures shall be in
corporated. is what the chief experts
were discussing today.
There was little objection to includ-
ing Mr.. Young's paper laying down the
general principals for negotiations on
annuities. The Germans, however,
were little inclined to favor publication
of their memordum in answer to the
creditors proposal. If the German
figures are not included. the Allies
figures also will not be included.
Issue Of Minority Report.
The question of whether there is
likely to be minority report will be
settled only when the report is finally
acted on, and the Germans may ask to
be relieved from signing the document
and be permitted TO put in a report of
their own. In that case. there may be
three reports, since Mr.. Young might
well decline to take sides between the
two principal parties to the conflict.
The experts began thinking about a
departure from Paris just as soon as
the drafting committee was appointed.
The japanese, who were the first to
arrive and who are the farthest from
home, already were booking passage.