REVISING DAWES PLAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 9

REVISING DAWES PLAN

GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS HOPES OF EARLY EVACUATION (rtißixaaoo — n<j—yj psnua) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Tuesday. The German Charge d’Affaires in London had a long Interview with the acting-Foreign Secretary, Lord Cushendun. in reference to Germany’s

willingness to collaborate 'in the appointment of a committee of experts, as agreed at Geneva, to seek a definite settlement of the reparation problem. A message from Paris says the German Ambassador to France interviewed the French Foreign Secretary, M. Briand. He expressed the Berlin Government’s view that the committee should be composed of independent experts, not Government officials. The French Council of Ministers discussed the question. Subsequently M. Loucheur, vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, informed journalists that the Government did not propose in any form to submit the Berenger-Mellon and the CaillauxChurchill debt agreements for the Chamber’s ratification. It was still dealing with the reparation question, he said, and had not yet reached the question of debts. Dispatches from Berlin state that hopes are expressed there that when the committee of experts is convened, France will spontaneously agree to the early evacuation of the Rhineland and so create an improved atmosphere for a revision of the Dawes plan.