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Show But Restoration of European Economic Machine Is to Be Insisted Upon , MANCHESTER, England May 21. Writing on tho forthcpmlng conference at Spa with tho Germans, the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, says: "I am assured on very high authority au-thority that Germany is potentially in a position to put forward. a reparation estimate that ought not: to fall short of intelligent and reasonable allied demands, de-mands, but it will bo'Oxpressly pointed out that the naming f a figure must be made dependent upon the restoration restora-tion of tho European economic machine ma-chine to something like working order. Tho present chaos renders any reasonable rea-sonable conversation impossible." The correspondent says Germany will likely put forih conditions precedent pre-cedent to a discussion asking that Germany Ger-many bo granted abtfut -100,000 tons of shipping; that proceeds of the liquidation liquida-tion of the German property in England Eng-land and France he allotted to her; reduction re-duction of the costs of lhe occupation; insistence upon the impossibility of fulfilling coal delivery obligations if tho Sllesian coal field is lost; and the restoration of econohTic intercourse between be-tween Germany and-- her neighbors at least on tho basis of reciprocity. nn, |