BACK TO THE HAGUE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 861, 3 January 1930, Page 9

BACK TO THE HAGUE

REPARATION DETAILS TO BE CLEARED INTERNATIONAL BANK British Official Wireless Reed. 10.35 a,m. RUGBY, Thursday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, accompanied by Mrs. Snowden and the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, will leave London tonight to attend the resumed Reparations Conference at The Hague. Sir Maurice Hankey, secretary-gen-eral of the conference and British technical adviser, has already proceeded to The Hague, and Sir Eric Phipps, British Minister at Vienna, is attending in a diplomatic capacity. The purpose of the resumed meeting is to deal with the items of the agenda which the delegates to the August conference were unable to settle before having to proceed to the League of Nations meetings at Geneva. Among other matters, the delegates will deal with the question of the International Bank and will consider the draft charter drawn by the organisation committee which met at Baden Baden. They will also examine a long report on the subject of deliveries-in-kind and consider the questions relating to non-German reparation. DELEGATES ASSEMBLING THE HAGUE, Thursday. The delegates are assembling at the Hague for the opening of the second Reparation Conference tomorrow. The duration of the sittings is uncertain, but every effort is to be made to finish the proceedings before the Five Powers Naval Conference in London. Mr. Philip Snowden and Mr. W. Graham, British Chancellor of the Exchequer and President of the Board of Trade, respectively, are to leave London today. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, is not coming. There is general relief because Dr. Schacht (Germany) also will be an absentee. The object of this conference is to clear up the matters which were not dealt with in August; also to consider the charter of the international bank and the questions of deliveries in kind and non-German reparation payments. Austria, for instance, is hoping that the conference will cancel her reparation debts.