Delegates at Work

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 7

Delegates at Work

NO TIME LOST AT THE HAGUE Snowden Sees Light Sessions YOUNG PLAN RATIFICATION British Official Wireless RUGBY, Friday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, and the president of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, the chief British delegates at the adjourned Reparations Conference, arrived at The Hague this morning. A preliminary session of the conference is due to take place this evening.

This evening’s session will be an open one, and will be preceded by a private meeting of the delegates of the six invited Powers to consider the question of procedure. Prior to his departure from London last evening, Mr. Snowden in a Press interview, said: “I do not think outwork will be as arduous as it was last time. The preparation has been much more thorough. The various committees have got through an immense amount of work, and it is left for the

delegates to fit together the loose ends.

“Among the questions to be considered are the ratification of the Young plan, an international bank scheme, and now the German reparations. The international bank question is a highly complicated one, but I think it will be adopted.” PARLEY WITH TARDIEU YOUNG PLAN FAVOURED Reed. 11 a.m. THE HAGUE, Friday. Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, and M. Tardieu, Premier of France, privately conferred prior to their preparations for the conference. M. Tardieu, in a statement, said: “We agreed that the whole of the Young Plan must be carried out in its entirety.” s