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France Smarts
At Slight by
Lloyd George
Delacroix's Week-End Trip
to London Is Believed to
Foreshadow Conferei.ee
on Reparations Payments
Paris Is Not Notified
British Premier Reported
to Have Said the Entente
Cordiale No Longer Exists
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cabi* to The Tribune
Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Tnc.
PARIS. Oct. 8. -The conference which ?
premiers Delacroix of Belgium and '
Lloyd George will have in London
tt?s week end is believed here to In?
volve a discussion of Germany's repa?
ration payments.
v The meeting Is attracting interest
here because Delacroix agreed with
President Millerand a month ago to ?
renounce the proposed Geneva confer- :
once, where the question of repara?
tions was to. have been discussed with'
the Germans, and to substitute a ;
meeting between the inter-Allied rep- ;
?-.rations commission and the German !
delecrates. Frenchmen regard it as a
question of courtesy toward the United ?
States in not discussing reparations
with the Germans except when Amer?
ica was represented in the discussion,!
as that nation would be unofficially
on the reparations commission.
Millerand suggested this to Lloyd
George in a message transmitted
through the French ?Ambassador in
London last week, but the reply of '
the British government has not yet
been received here.
Real Reason for Trip
Some days ago the Belgian govern?
ment received an extremely forceful
rote from London in which Lloyd '
Geor?e expressed astonishment that
Delacroix should renounce the Geneva
conference after having himself sug- ;
gested it at the Spa conference be- '
tween German and Allied leaders. Dela?
croix in reply was asked to explain
his position.
That explanation is understood to be :
the real reason for the Belgian Tre- '?
mier's trip to London this week, al?
though the pretext given in the press
?s that Delacroix is to unveil a monu?
ment commemorating the hospitality
given to Belgians by England during ;
the war.
U The French government naturally is :
J astonished that it was not invited to
. the London conference. Lloyd George's
ill humor of the peut two months has >
prevented any meeting between
French and British premiers. This
is accounted for by the fact that
Mlllerand'a stand toward Poland and ?
his recogntion of General VTrangel
brought such success.
Another cause of the British Pre
rr.iir's sulkines:* given here is the ob?
viously cordial relations of the French
??.nd American governments and the
'requcnt accord of the Franco-Amer- !
ican press on the subject of Ireland.
France Not Alarmed
Lloyd George does not attempt to
hide his anger, and he even made it
evident at Lucerne and subsequently
to English journalists. He is reported
as saying that French politics ia ab?
solutely changed since the days of
Clemenceau and that the entente ?*??*?
d?ale no longer rxists. He is said to
threaten the formation of a new po
ptScal alliance with Italy and Ger?
many and even the Soviets.
Those reported declarations do not
Alarm the trench government, but the
, Hntish Premier's attitude in the past
month has caused painful surprise
' , ere_ lht' *rcnch desire to confer with
' u?yd Georgre and talk ove,- these _ub
, jects has only been intensified. The
French also want to a?k him about
,the intention of certain neutral mem
i hers of the League of Nations to pro?
pose at the next meeting of the coun
Cil the immediate admission of Ger?
many to the league.
France JSot Satisfied
W it h Reparation Plan
Proposal for Rebuilding by a
German Syndicate Same as
Was Made at the Spa Meeting
PARIS, Oct. 8 (By The Associated
Press1).?At the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to-day the correspondent was
informed that the new German proposi?
tion with regard to reparations, brought
to Paris from Berlin by Charles
Laurent, the French Ambassador to
Germany, for settlement, was very
much the same as that presented at the
Spa conference, and that it probably
would be rejected.
The German plan includes the re?
building of the devastated regions of
France by a German syndicate, over
which France would have no control
Rnd through which, it is believed, Ger?
many would profit materially. It was
added that there was a probability that
France later mi_;ht alter her position,
but at present there was no indication
of it.
It was also the impression of the
Foreign Office that the note of Earl
Curzon of Kedleston, the British For?
eign Secretary, asking about the pro?
jected Geneva conference, would re?
ceive a polite but firm answer, explain?
ing that France did not think the time
opportune for such a meeting, inas?
much as the reparations commission
has far from completed its preliminary
labors.
According to information obtained In
German circles the French Minister
of Labor met certain German labor
officials in Paris last August and dis?
cussed the German plan for rebuilding
the revastated renions. It was finally
agreed that the laborers furnished by
Germany should be housed in barracks
and marched to and from their work
by military guards under French non?
commissioned officers. When this was
put un to the German labor leaders in
Germany they refused to permit Ger?
mans to work under these conditions.
It was f urther explained in German
circles that Germany within the past
few months had many suggestions and
propositions to France regarding rep?
arations. All of which France con?
sidered unworthy of consideration.
These included schemes to pay the In?
demnity in cash, in labor and in mer?
chandise. An attempt to make an ex?
port agreement with France failed be?
cause Germany would not agree to fix
a definite price in the contracts for
German products which were to be sold
to France.
-.
Lloyd George Supporter Wins
In Parliamentary Bye-Election
LONDON", Oct. 8.?Frederick W4se,
the government candidate, was chosen
to Parliament in the bye-election for
the Ilford constituency rendered nec
esesary by the death of the incumbent,
Sir Peter Griggs. The result of the
polling, which took place September
25, was announced to-day. Mr. Wise,
Coalition-Unionist, received 15,612
votes; Joseph King, Labor, received
G,57T. and J. Thompson, Liberal, 6,515.
The election created much interest,
particularly as Premier Lloyd George
had written the government candidate
saying he was fighting against the
forces of unreason and unrest. Mr.
Wise argued in his speeches that his
election "would mean the country was
giving Premier Lloyd George a vote of
confidence in his fight against the na?
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Davis Tells Cable
Conference Need of
Service Equality
Unrestricted Access to All
Parts o? World Named as
Another Object of Meet?
ing ; ;> Nat i en s Represented
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.?Equality of
service and unrestricted access to all
parts of the world wero set forth to?
day as the objects to be sought in in?
ternational communications by Herman
H. Davis, Under Secretary of State, in
welcoming delegates of the five Allied
and associated powers to the first pre- !
liminary session of the International,
Communications Conference. Questions
of strategy and selfish interest would |
not be supported by public opinion, he ?
said.
Delegates from France, Great Britain,'
Italy, Japan and the United States wer.
present at the conference at the State?
Department, the first In wnich. the !
United States has taken active part
with, the Allied powers under the Ver- ;
Bailles Tr_aty. It was called by Presi- :
dent Wilson pome months ago, with the !
approval of Congress and as a result of !
the decision of the Council of Five in '?
Paris in 1919 to leave the allocation of
the German cables and questions af?
fecting international communications !
to such a body.
"Aside from agreeing upon the nllo- '
cation of the cables ceded by Germany,
which is one of the primary questions'
to be settled at this conference," See'
retary Davis declared, "it is believed
that this conference will also ho able
to arrive at a common understanding1
relative to more important aspects of"
the problem, namely, the increased ef?
ficiency in existing cables and unham?
pered facilities for the establishment
and maintenance of additional cable
and radio service throughout the
world.
"Developments in recent years," he
continued, "have brought a realization
of the vast importance of an efficient
and rapid interchange of international
communication."
"The more the peoples of the worl?!
can understand and appreciate those of !
other parts of the world, the fewer
causes of misunderstanding there will
Turkish Wives Besiege
Ministry for Men's Pay
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 8.
?The War Ministry here was
stormed twice to-day by the wives
of Turkish war prisoners and un?
paid officers, who demanded |
money. Sahri Bey, the eighty- ]
year-old Minister of Finance,
waved a report at the crowd
showing that the treasury had
only $100,000 with which to meet [
a monthly pay roll of $1,000,000.
be and, necessarily, the fewer causes
for conflict," he said. "This can only ;
be accomplished by the most ample !
and unhampered news service and com- !
mercial intercourse."
Secretary Davis recalled that the '
United States government in 1862 in?
stituted a movement for uniformity'
and equality of world postal communi?
cations.
"It is, therefore," he added- "an
I
especial satisfaction to the United!
States that the first preliminary con- j
ferenco to deal with electrical com- i
munications should be convened in -1
Washington."
Responses were made by heads of
the allied delegations.
Davis Elected President
Upon motion of Ambassador Shide
hara, chairman of the Japanese delega?
tion, Secretary Davis was made presi- \
dent of the preliminary conference. M.
Lanel, Minister Plenipotentiary and i
chairman of the French delegation, was ;
made vice-president.
?t was decided that the conference :
should function largely through com- :
mittees, with only occasional general j
meetings. Committees were named to '
consider disposition of the German i
seized cabies, the radio protocol, !
drawn up by France, Great Britain,
Italy and the United States in 1919; !
drawing up of a "universal communica- !
tions union," embracing radio and !
telegraph; formulation of a code of in
ternational radio and cabl% law to em?
brace cable landing rights; plans for
the promotion of communication facil- '
?ties between the Allied and associated <
po . ???
Postmaster General Burleson recom?
mended that general meetings should
be open, but this question was still un?
der debate when the delegates went
into executive session. The commit- i
tees meet Monday.
Egyptians Will Accept
Plan for Independence
Nationalist Party Leaders Agree
to British Protectorate. U ilh
One important Reservation
PARIS, Oct. 8 (By The Associate?!
Press1?.- Lenders of the Egyptian Na?
tionalist party, meeting in Paris, have
decided to accept with one important
reservation the British p?an Tor Egyp?
tian independence, which was an?
nounced in England last July.
This was learned to-day by the
correspondent from a member of the
Egyptian Committee of Four, which
carried the British plan to the Egyp?
tian people and arrived in Paris yes?
terday on its way to London.
As a result of their two-day con?
ference the leaders have framed a
number of suggestions and counter
proposals which probably will be sub?
mitted to a high official of the British
government, who is expected to arrive
in Paris withii
?.v;;s intimated
jo Earl Curzon,
retary.
The chief reservation made by the
Egyptians consists of a demand ?.at
ill ; I ? :: es to the
tora te over Enypt be ?
natci fr >m t e Treaty of Ve - I
n.nd all other existing treati
ing those growing out of I
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