THE ALLIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1921, Page 5

THE ALLIES.

LONDON CONFERENCE. * « SETTLING WITH GERMANY. REPORTED TOTAL INDEMNITY. Bj Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 26. Over the week-end, Mr. Lloyd George is entertaining at “The Crequers," Lord Curzon (British Foreign Secretary), Mr. Bonar Law, Sir Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secretary for Ireland), M. Briand (Premier of France), Lord d’Abernon (British Ambassador at Berlin), M. Berthelot (French Foreign Secretary), Marsh Foch, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and General Weygand. Paris newspapers interpret the summoning of Marshal Foch, who arrives with Field-Marshal Wilson on Sunday, as indicating that a preliminary discussion of penalties will be held. The Petit Parisian declares that France must insist that reparations will be considered separately from disarmament, which is regarded as settled, and France must oppose the substitution of economic for military penalties. The German delegation, totalling sixty, is arriving on Monday, and will be accommodated at the Savoy Hotel. The Evening Standard’s diplomatic correspondent states that Herr von Simons (German Foreign Minister) will offer a total indemnity of £7/500,000,000, spread over thirty years.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WHY GERMANY CAN PAY. SMALLER SUFFERER FROM WAR. BETTER OFF THAN THE ALLIES. Received Feb. 27, 11.5 p.m. London, Feb. 27. The Allied conference of economic experts submitted a report intended to meet Germany’s contention that she is unable to pay the indemnity demanded. The report points out Germany's favorable economic situation compared with that of the Allies. She has not suffered material war damage nor contracted a heavy foreign debt. France’s foreign debt is 2386 francs per head, while Germany’s is only forty marks. Germany’s disarmament saves pre-war expenditure on the Army and Navy, and releases considerable man-power for increased production. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS. CONTROL OF RAW PRODUCTS. Received Feb. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 26. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent states that the German Cabinet adopted the reparation, ooumterproposals providing for the co-operative control of the world’s raw products, and the allotment of a percentage of Germany’s industrial products to the Allies as reparation, with a partial payment in gold.—Aus. and N.ZI Cable Assn. PAN-GERMAN PROPAGANDA. MAY CAUSE DISTURBANCES. Berlin, Feb. 24. As the result of violent pan-German propaganda following the decision of the Paris Conference apprehensions are entertained regarding an outbreak of disturbances in Germany during the London Conference. The possibility of an attempted coup d’etat is discussed. The Allgemeine Zeitung publishes a warning against heedless action, which would only renew foreign suspicion of Germany’s military leanings and be imputed by the German proletariat to the whole middle-class instead of a few political adventurers. —Reuter.