er hand,
Grea®
Britain had
beon
obliged
to wage
war- abroad
and
had
b22a
forced
to incur the
greatest
financial
oxpendi-
ture.
Her
naval
effort
alone
had
cost
cen billion of pounds.
GJermany,
he
¢on-
tinued,
‘‘can pay only in exports.
{f she
|
exported
too
much
to the Allies, it would
|
mean
the rain
of
the
Allied industries.
It she exported
too much
to the
neutrals,
|
it would mean
the
loss
to
the
Allies
of
|
the neutral
narkets.
Consaguently
the
|
question
of effeciually sezuring
payment
|
of reparations
must
ba
taken
up
with
due account
of these
facts.’”’”
The
Brit-
|
ish Premier insisted
npon
the
nacessity
|
of real
progress
at
the
preseant
confar-
|
egce.
This could b 2 accomplishad
if
the
|
French
Govt.
would aceapt
the
3oulogne
figure as
a basis
of discussion,
that
is
to
|
say,
six billion pounds
in thirty or thirty-
|
five annuities
with
iaterest.
Certain
|
things
must
be
iasisced
upon,”
Mr.
|
Lloyd George
daclared,
‘‘Tne
datermi-
|
nation
of Germany’s
capacity
to
pay,
1
the
renovation
of
Germany’s
fantastic
|
budget
and
the
imposition
upon
her
|
p2ople
of raxes
as heavy
as
those paid by
|
the
Allied People,
economize
as
the
Al-
|
lies have
done.
The
total
of
the
debt
|
must
be fixed and the mode
of
payment
|
established
then
at
a meeting
similar
to
that
at Spa.
the
Allies should
mzet
Ger-
many
and
finally discuss
a
settlement.
Mr. Doymer said
that Mr. Lloyd George’s
speech
did
not change
his upinion.
Count
|
Storza,
thz
Italian
Foreign
Minister,
|
sivongly favoured
the expert
programme
of the Belgians.
He said it
would
be
a
vital mistake
to depart
from the basis
at
Boulogne.
M.
Briand
then
took
the
flcor.
He asserted
that France
was
not
asking for the impossibie.
French
pub-
tic opinton
was
ready
to
aceept
what
might reasonablv
be collected.
but
would
not
accept
befora
investigation,
a
one-
sided
theory
that Germany
is
unable
to
pay.
He
favoured
the
annuities
and
inquired,
"‘Why not
fix them
now,
and
then
oxamine
iermany’s
capacity
to
pay
and
consider
the
matter
at
anoth-
er
Conterence.
Mr. Lloyd
George
in-
sisted
it was essential
that someihing
be
lone,
for neithar
the Allies nor the world
could
boar
further
delay.
It was
then
chat
the
decision
was
taken
tc
appoint
3 comnmitiae
£ty examin2
the question
and
|
report
back
to the
council.,
‘‘Tomorrow
will
be the
decisive
day for
the Confer-
|
enc2’’,
said
M.
3riand
to
the Associated
|
Press
at
he
close
of a
meeting
lasting
|
tour
hours,
which
began
under
condi-
|
tions
leading
many
to
believa
that
the
|
continuance
of the
Conference
was
en-
|
dangered,
but
which
cios -d under
some-
|
what
more
optimisiic
circumstances’’.
|
This reparations
question
must
be settled
|
once
and for ali before
Saturday
night’’,
|
M.
Briand
declared
‘'Tne
positions
|
taken
differ, tut
are
not
irreconcilable.
A
definite
resolution
must
be
adopted
|
e before
this
week
end.
My position
is
|
exactly thatoutlined
in my official declar-
ation
in
the
Chamber
whenI assumed
'
S
CRUNMIZE
AVYiy
the
Premiership.
It
was
recalled
that
this
declaration
was
to
the
effect
that
France
was
opposed
te fixing
a
stated
-
amcunt
for the
German
debt.
But
fa-
voured annuities.
Mr. Briand seemed
to
~
treat
the question
of disarmament
as
of
-
less importance.
saying,
' ‘The-reparations
-
questirn
must
be
settled
first.
I only
-
wish
the reparations
questions
could
be
-
settled
as easily
as
that of disarmament.
~
The question
appears
likely to be
solved
.
befoie
Saturday.
The clouds
were
dark
.
and heavy today,
but
‘he
atmosphere
is
.
ciear tonight’’, the
Premier
concluded.
|
London,
Jany.
27th. —Organized
La-
-
.
bour
at the National
Conference
o
the
|
Labour
Party
and
the
Trades
Union
Congress
today demanded
immediate
ac-
.
tion of
tne
Government
0o
remedy
the
'
plight
brought
about
by
the
steadily
\
growing
unemployment
1n
the country,
|
endorsed
a policy
which
its authors
as-
|
serl
wili perinanently
remove
the
cause
|
of the present
industrial
depression,
and
|
adjourned
until February
23rd,
in order
|
to
give
the
i.abour
viembers
of Pariia-
.
ment
.opportunity
(o press
for
the
de-
.
~
sired
remedial
steps.
''lf
we
cannot
-
achieve
what
this
programme
suggests
.
by
the
coostitutional
means
we
will
-
addopt
some
means
of
extra constitution-
al character’’,
declared
r.
Robert
Wil-
llams,
leader
of
the
transport
workers
.
in supporting
the
resolution.
The
pro-
.
posals
embodied
in the
resolution
called
i
for
trad:
with
Russia,
restoration
of
r
trade
with
other
coniinenial
eountries,
'
acessation
of
wars,
stabilization
of
in-
ternational
exchange
rates,
an
extension
.
of
credits.
organization
of
transport
|
system,
cessation
of
the
military
op-
.
position
and
lawless
reprisals
in
Ire-
land,
state
maintenance
of
unemploy-
|
ment,
a.
benefit
of
{ferty
shillings
.
weekly to each
householder,
twenty five
.
shillings
weekly
to each
single
man
or
.
woman,
over
18
years,
with additional
allowance
to dependents
and
an
under
'
employment
allowance
on the
same
basis
'
to provide for the adoption
oi shovciiine,
the oroportionate
benefit
to
be ealculated
on
the tutal
days
last
wee2k.
The
pro-
'
posal
ask
for
a
legzl
reduction
in
working hours
to forty-tfour weekly dras-
.
tic reduction
.fovertime,
tne undertaking
'~ of
necessary
publie
work,
iocluding
.
development
of
roads,
railways
and
.
waterways,
the withdrawal
and
restric-
.
tion
of
juvenile
labour
2nd
raisiag
of
|
tae
school-leaving
age.
Govt
(raining
'
schools
for wozren
and unemploy<d
male
.
workers,
a guaranteed
minimu
.: housing
|
programme
for five years
with safeguards
|
against
unemplosmen:
to building trades
|
unions,
the removal
of Govt
resiriciions
|
on
the expansion
of duildinz guilds
and
.
the
control
of building
materials.
The
~
resolution
covering the conferences
pro-
posals
which
was
adopted
wili be sent
to
the
Prime
Minister for consideraiion
of
"
.he
members
of the
Cabinet
and
all
the
me nbers
of Parliament.
Pania
Tan
99t
A
osliztion
of
she
.
problem
of
German
reparations
was
.
tentatively
reached
late
today
by
the
Committee
of experts
appointed
by
the
.
Allied Supreme
Council.
Confidence
was
.
expressed
that
the
Council
would
ap-
-
prove
the Committee’s
plan
tomorrow.
The
proposed
scheme
provides
for the
.~
payment-
of annuities
on
a siiding
scale
of from
two
billion tosix
billion
gold-
marks
over
period
of probably
42 years
also
124 percent
ad
valorem
tax
on
Ger-
man exports.
:
Dublin, Jan.
28th.—The resignation
is
.
announced
of Mr. Roger Sweatman
from
*
the Irish Republic
Parliament
owing
to
.
what
he termed
a
radical
disagreement
-
with the majority of his fellow
members
.-
on vital matters
of policy.
Thris
is
crea-
tinga big stir
in Dublin.
A
prominent
|
Sinn Fein
leader
today told
the
Associa
ted Press
that the resignation
meant
the
.
final squashing
of
the
peace
movement
.
in
which
Mr.,
Sweatman
and
Father
-
O’Flanagan,
actihg President
of the Sinn
.
bein, participated
conspicuously.
London,
Jan.
28th.—Mr. Lloyd George,
.
says
the
London
Times,
has
sent
in-
.
structions
from
Paris
for
the
coalition
party machinery
to be
ready
for
a
gen-
|
eral election in
May
or
June,
after
in-
.
troduction
of the Budget early
in
April.
|
1t
appears,
says
the
newspaper
com-
|
ments,
tha'
the
Prime
Minister
and
.
Chancelior of the Exchequer
have
decid-
~
editis
possible
to
introduce
a
Budget
-of 950,000,000
ounds
which
would
allow
considerakle
remission
o!
taxation
and
°
thus afford a favourable
>pp-riunity
for
appealing
to
the
counrry.
Buenous
Aires, Jany.
28th.— 'he
Bank
of
Spain
and
America
capitalized
at
2,000,000
pesos,
closed
its
doors
today
The vuspension
is attributed
1o
the
fall
'
of Bank
of Spain
and
Paraguay
of Asun-
cion,
whnich
was'a
creditor
of
the
loeal
Bank.
Wasninzton,
Jany.
29th.
—lndirect
re-
cogaition
by
the
United
Scates
ot
the
Republic
of Ireland
was
knocked,
out
in
tne
Hous
todav
ona
piinr of orier.
During
consideration
of
the
diolomatic
appropriation
representative
Vlason,
a
mezinber
of
tha
Foreign
Affairs Commii-
tee,
offered un
amendment
providing
a
salary o: SIO,OOO for
a
Minster
of
Ire-
land.
lastantly
hali
a
doz:n
reprzsen-
tatives
were
on
their feet
and
th> chair-
man challenzed
the vigur
of
the
House
to
include
such
na
amendman
on
the
ground
that
it
was withoi:
auinicicy
of
the
law
and
that ih:re
had b:on
no
. xe-
cutive recognition
+* lreland.
-'ie point
was sustained
by
Mr. owaer
of lowa,
presiding.
.
FOR
SALE
e
“
-
Une New
Croquet
Set.
~pply
to
:
|
CAPT. R. D. LUWEI.L,
Marine Barracks.