ALLIED CONFERENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1924, Page 3

ALLIED CONFERENCE.

[Reuters Telegrams.] GOOD PROGRESS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. It is stated that t .S.A. Ambassador Kellog, pursuant to tin* State Department's instructions, lias informed the Allied Loudon Conlerc nee that the I nited States desires to participate officially in the proposed Paris meeting to discuss the allocation of the- German reparations payments. Tims, the I lilted Smies will have a voice in the determination of the methods oi repaying the costs of the American Army of Occupat ion. The State Department is still unintonned as to whether such a subsidiarv iniilcri-nce will he lic-ld, but it is understood that it will la- especially desirous to pursue a solution of the economic* problem on the ( oiitiuent m view of the present parley’s distinct advance*. Ibis decision it is believed, and the Administration's avowed willingness to participate therein, "ill likewise strengthen its hold domestically bfi-au.se of widespread eagerness to see n .settlement of the reparations que-s----t ion. LONDON. Aug. 7. The newspapers all agree that the negotiations between the Allied and German delegations are making excellent progress and no serious hitch threatens. Chancellor Marx and Dr Slresemnnu have -exchanged courtesy calls with President llc-rriot. Ibis is the- first lime such l-'raiico-Gerinnu exchanges have occurred since the war. LONDON. Aug. 7.

Considerable progress was aniiolllieeCi ai ihe conclusion <d to-day s sitting of the Reparations Ccmferonce. The French and Germans agreed to consider a loan as a moral obligation, thereby satisfying one of the Reparations Commission's essential c-oiidii ic>n> f" r lln- enforcement of the- Dawc-s plan. It was also Stated that the Dawes plan, on the request of tla* Germans would |,e put into operation on tile little, instead of the til tc-c-nt lc 111 October, further progress wa« made in the disciisthe First and Second Committee'- reports, whercii agii-einc-nt ha- virtually been reached.