Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-29
Reparations Conference Pc.
IiticaI Committee Takes Ac.
tion as Result of Agree
ment Reached Today.
WITHDRAWAL TO START
WITH PLAN ADOPTION
Belgium and Britain Will Complete
Evacuation in Three Months,
While Mainz Bridgehead Must
Be Free of French Troops by End
of June, 1880.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
THE HAGUE, August %
The creditor powers and the
Germans reached an agree
ment on the Young reparations
plan at The Hague conference
this afternoon.
A full session of all the pow
ers represented at the confer
ence will be held at 10 am. to-
morrow TO conclude officially
the business for which they met
on August s.
BY the Associated Press
THE HAGUE. NETHERLANDS,
August 29.-After nearly four
weeks of hard labor, The Hague
reparations conference today
reached a definite decision on
Rhineland evacuation which is
still dependent, however. on final
agreement on the Young plan.
On a report of Foreign Secretary
Henderson of Great Britain, the
political committee today decided
that evacuation of the Rhineland
must be begun at once, that it
must be terminated as far as con-
Germs the Belgians and British
and the second French zone with
in three months after adoption
of the Young plan and that the
last zone of occupation. the
bridgehead at MainZ, must be
cleared of foreign troops before
the end of June, 1880.
This decision fell a little short
of German desires. The Germans
held out long and strongly for
earlier liberation of the occupied
territory. They wanted to be able
to celebrate complete evacuation
by Christmas, but it was con-
tended by the French that it
would be physically impossible to
get all French troops away so
quickly.
Beginning of evacuation of that zone.
French and German Parliaments have
ratified the Young plan. and is to be
fastened in every way possible. Spe-
cif1cally the French are given eight
months in which to accomplish the
withdrawal, but it is understood that
in no case must 1t go beyond the end of
June. 1890
This decision of the political COM
mittee will become effective only in the
event that fheTP iS hero
on the financial aspects of the Young
plan. Unless the Germans accept a
compromise satisfactory to the French
respecting payment of the cost of occu-
patton after September l the agreement
will not be binding and the negotiations
will have to be renewed.
The fact that there is now definite
decision with fixed date for evacu-
alton is thought in some reparation cir
cles to provide good argument in seek
ing a concession by the Germans on
other disputed points. Consequently
hopes have again been raised that the
conference may end successfully with
out running into another week.
BRAND Makes Offer.
Premier BRAND of France. in behalf
of the French and Belgians, wrote For
eign Minister Stresemann of Germany
letter, saying tflat they WOULD pay
one-fourth of the cost of the expenses
of the occupation after September / If
the Germans would adhere to the ar
rangement among the creditors and
make an accord possible.
This letter was the subject of discus
sion among the three occupying powers
concerning the Rhineland in the full
political committee.
German representatives again early
today declined to participate in the
compromise of France. Italy. Belgium
and Japan. with Great Britain to Sc
cure British adherence to the Young
reparations plan.
The Germans, headed by DR.. GUS
tav Stresemann. German foreign min
lister, reiterated their feeling the Reich
had made all concessions possible to it
by accepting the Young plan at the
Paris experts conference.
Germany Not Concerned.
The problem OF the creditor nations
in splitting the German reparations
among themselves the Germans consid-
cred to be a problem in which they
were not concerned particularly other
than as observers and in which they
we're under no obligation to participate
The German representatives made it
plain. however. that if the creditor ma
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