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Show M MEET TERMS DEGLARESKRMANY JTMOST SUM NATION CAN PAY 18 150,000,000,600 MARKS, THE MINISTRY HAS DECIDED. Sermans May Suggest That United States De Called In as An Arbl-trator Arbl-trator for Purpose of Preventing Pre-venting Extreme Measures. Iiorlln. The ministry of finance has cached the conclusion that tho ut-nost ut-nost sum Uenunny can pny ln repara-Ions repara-Ions Is 150,000,000,000 marks, this lu-iludlug lu-iludlug nil sho bus so fur paid ln cash md goods, nccordlng to Information vlilch tho Deutsche Zoltung says It ins received from a "special" source. This ICO.000,000,000 marks would bo mid off In thirty years under the plan lUtllned by the newspaper's Informant, ivho also Is quoted as declaring that ;he proposal to pay It would be sub-nltted sub-nltted to the authorities at Paris for :ho purpose of lcnrnlng whether tho coming London conference on repara-:Ions repara-:Ions will permit of Its consideration iloug with tho allied proposals adopted adopt-ed at the recent Paris conference. Refusal to allow consideration of tho Herman counter-proposal would result In Germany absenting herself from the London conference, set for SInrch 1, the newupuper declares It has learned. It adds that Germany would then suggest sug-gest that the United States be called In ns nn arbitrator for tho purpose of preventing the entente from adopting measures such as an Invasion of the Ituhr district, which, It declares, would iu looked upon by Germany as an act jf war which would positively destroy the treaty of Versailles. In the Deutsche Zcltuug's article the suggestion was made that, while the .'iiteuto .vas extremely desirous or irlngiug about the Loudon conference, t was not unlikely Unit the deliberations delibera-tions would be postponed to a dntc (round the 'middle of Starch, ln order :o give tho new Washington govern-nent govern-nent an opportunity to participate lu ;hem. Tho suggestion that the United States be Invited to medlnte falls to irouso enthusiasm ln thu conservative udUKtrlallst orgun, Dlo Post, which xpresses fear that tho American ver-llet ver-llet In such n case, while deciding qn he. sum between that submitted by ermnny and the entente figures, ivoubl be more likely to Incllno toward be sum the entente Is demanding. 1AIL TIEUP REPRISAL THREAT |