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Show GERMANY WOULD DEFERJPAYMENT ENVY FROM BERLIN GOING TO CONFER WITH REPARATIONS REPARA-TIONS BODY 5tV30e,OW QotJ Mark Ar Due Allies In Short Time Which Is Causing tho Minister of Finance Much Worry Berlin. Tho German government has started action which may result In absolving Gortnany from meeting the payment of CO.000,000 gold marks required by tho allies In sending Dr. Fischer, chairman of tho war dobt comlssloB, and Horr Schroedor, undor. secretary of the ministry of finance, to Paris, to confer with the reparations repara-tions commission on the question ot readjusting the present schedule of gold payments. Although this move U considered a temporary expedient with the prima purpose of influencing the deliberations delibera-tions nt Paris, official financial circles would welcome this revision as indicating indi-cating a general solution of the present pres-ent schedule of gold payments, which Chnncolor Wirth has declared, Germany Ger-many is In no position to carry- out, particularly-since the recent collapse of German exchange. Officially It was stated Sunday that the Rolchsbank was technically In a position to deliver 60,000,000 gold marks noxt wock, but that their release re-lease from bank vaults would "badly expose" the Institution, whose officials offi-cials bellevo that this avallablo gold fund shall be devoted to stoadylng tho mark at home and abroad. Tho mission undertaken by Dr. Fischer nnd Horr Schrocdor at the instigation in-stigation of tho government will bo carried out In tho hopo of sustaining the Rclchsbank's position. The mission mis-sion will consider tho revision of tho dates for futuro gold payments. Any formal roqucst for an oxoct moratorium morator-ium wilt depend upon tho nature of tho pourparlers at Paris and the accommodating ac-commodating nttltude of the reparations repara-tions commission. Hanking officers bellovo that tho progress which has marked theso deliberations de-liberations In tho Inst few weeks has contributed materially to encouraging encourag-ing the Gormnn government In Its decision de-cision to approach tho reparations commission at u tlmo when marks aro selling for loss than fivo for ono cont. "The question, Cnn Germany pny?' has now boenmo fundamentally ncuto," sold ono prominent official who bo-lloves bo-lloves that tho situation has slm-mored slm-mored to a question of ndoptlng practical, prac-tical, lucid flnnuclnl policies which affect af-fect tho allies and Germany alike |