Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
Lord ReveIstoke Is Victim of
Heart Attack in Paris.
Conference Adiourns Until
Monday in His Respect.
SCHACHT BRINGS CRISIS
BY BARRING COMPROMISE
Germany Cannot Pay Allied De-
mands, He Holds-Willingness
to Pay Own Figures Seen Linked
7 to Restoration of Lost Territory.
: Some Hope Still Held.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, April 19.-With def
mite breakdown of the repara-
tions negotiations held off by
the sudden death of Lord Rev.
elstoke, British expert, authori-
tative quarters late today indi-
Gated that the conference,
which went aground yesterday,
{ may yet be refioated.
The Germans, it appeared,
had indicated a desire to re-
open discussions. Informal con-
versations between DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht, chief of the German
delegation, and members of the
! allied representatives were re-
ported to have taken place
since adjournment of this
mornings plenary session.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 19.-The dramatic
death of Lord RevelStoke, leading
British financial expert on the
reparations committee, only a few
hours before a vital plenary ses-
sion of the committee today,
STAYED off the imminent complete
breakdown of the reparations
negotiations.
The new turn in the reparations
situation came with startling sud-
denness. Today's plenary session,
called for IL am, had been ex-
pected to see the end of the 10
weeks of arduous effort by the ex-
perts to solve the great postwar
problem, but the death Of Lord
RevelStoke from heart disease at
1880 o'clock this morning post
poned what had seemed an in
evitable announcement of COM
plete failure.
When the experts, worn by their own
long exertions, gathered in gloom at
the Hotel George v for what many
thought the last act of the present
reparationS drama, they already had
been informed that their colleague, worn
and tired by his own unceasing efforts
to find some compromise, had died at
his hotel this morning.
Young Tells Conference.
Formal announcement of the noted
British financier's death was made by
Owen D. Young. chairman, whereupon
81 CoL iAf
man delegate. expressed the deep re-
gEsts of the German delegation, while
all the other experts joined in express
sions of sorrow and tribute.
Mr.. Young then proposed that the
committee adjourn out OF respect to
Lord Revelstoke's memory, to meet at
IL o'clock next Monday morning.
For the moment the utter deadlock
which the experts had reached because
of their inability to strike compromise
between the demand of the allied cred
itor powers and the German offer for
reparations was forgotten, and yet un-
derneath, by curious irony of fate,
there was some feeling, however slight,
that Lord Revelstoke's death, by giving
the experts several days to think over
the situation, might result in some
eleventh. hour salvation for the vital
negotiations.
Gloom Remains, However.
This hope, perhaps chiefly sentiment
al in its origin, could do little to dis
pei the deep gloom around the George
v. Hotel, caused by the sudden death
of the British banker and the lack of
real hope Of again being able to pick
up the negotiations for a reparations
settlement with any chance of success
There was certain amount of activity
Z in the German delegation tending to
promote the theory that the German
proposal of 81 annuities of 1850, 900 900
marks (about $396,00O,000) was not so
closely tied up with political considera-
tions as had been deduced by the other
experts.
The allied and American delegates
refused to enter into any discussion of
the commissions work during the ad-.
journment and above ALL to engage in
any controversy with the German dele
cation over their proposal.
win Draw Up Report.
There will be no activity Of any sort
during the adjournment Of the COM
mittee, 1t was said, since nothing ap-
parently remains except to take formal
= cognizance of the committees failure,
and to draw up reports 70 the respective
governments explaining why. There
had been some doubt as to whether the
Germans would even attend today
plenary session, but this was dispelied
by their arrival, and 1t was stated that
! the Germans had decided TO attend
Mondays meeting and to participate
in drafting the committees report.
This report viii review the work OF
the Commission. and in 1t viii be In
corporated the scheme for an inter-
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