QUIET AT THE HAGUE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 9

QUIET AT THE HAGUE

LIGHT FIRST DAY FOR DELEGATES NO POLITICAL PROBLEMS British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. The second Hague Conference was opened quietly yesterday at a short public session followed by a meeting in private. The Prime Minister of Belgium, M. Jaspar, who presided over the public proceedings, made a short speech expressing gratitude 4o the Queen of the Netherlands for the hospitality extended to the conference and paying a tribute to the memory of the late Herr Stresemann. He extended a greeting to the new arrivals at the conference. The private session was devoted to procedure. There is to be one Financial Committee on German reparation. This will be presided over by M. Jaspar. A second Financial Committee on nonGerman Reparation is to be presided over by M. Loucheur (France). A third committee of Treasury experts will meet immediately to attempt to disociate from the remainder of the Young plan those features which threaten to be incapacitated in the event of a failure to reach an agreement betwen Hungary and Bulgaria about questions in dispute. There is no Political Committee on this occasion, as no political problems require to be discussed. WAR CONFISCATIONS DISCUSSION WITH GERMAN DELEGATES THE HAGUE, Monday. The New Zealand and Australian delegates to The Hague Conference have begun negotiations with the German delegates in regard to German property which those Dominions confiscated at the time of the war. The negotiations will be continued in Berlin if they are not completed here.