| Show GERMANY WILL DO DOHER DOHER HER BEST SHE SAYS o I I Conference Beginning n rr of c c Big Uig Things Says Premier Ll Lloyd yd George Georgen n fly A at Sp Spa Belgium July 17 Th 17 Tho conference confer conter- ence once hero between the tho allied chiefs a and nd the representatives of ot Germany Is Sa the tho beginning of or bIG bier things s Premier Lloyd Ge George of Great t Britain declared today OdaY Jn in n summing 8 up the the result o of the tho thelast thelast last fortnights fortnight's ht's sharp ter Y 5 tho Germans S 0 Vo 00 p e 0 will do do our our- best to carr carry ont out the agreements entered Into here T Dr r. r Walter Simons the German foreign minister salt said Premier Lloyd Llord George Indicated that he had a 1 high opinion of ot both hot Kon- Kon stantin Fehrenbach German chancellor chancel chancel- lor br and Dr Simons Lloyd George Georgo said It would have ha been an Immense advantage nd If It Americans Ameri Amen cans caTis had participated in the conferences conferences confer confer- en enes es because he add added cd they would have brought to It Jt r a ri viewpoint free freo from European rivalries ri Might not the European find the Americans embarrassing If In the settlement settlement settlement set set- the they took an active c part I of oC all questions Lloyd Llord George Georgc was asked Ho He replied he did not think so BO The power of America her disinterestedness and her spirit of fair Calr play pIa would be bo of oC tremendous ous value value val val- ue uc to Europe he said Dr Simons declared he ho was apprehensive of ot disturbances In the Ruhr region Trouble Is likely to come next week he said unless we wo can take m measures to feed the miners better at atthe atthe atthe the same samo time Ume that we ask them to work harder I telegraphed Hermes our food minister to send all available foodstuffs to the Ruhr im Im- Im mediately I have written to the food ministers of oC France Belgium and Great Britain an and Italy ur urging them to do all all all' that is possible to get got more food rood Into the Ruhr within two weeks Semiofficial l S Statement Issued Berlin July 17 A A- semiofficial statement relative e to the decision orthe of or the German tie legation at Spa to de deliver doliver do- do liver cr tons of coal eoal per pcr month to the allies Was Issued hero tonight No other decision was possible after Marshal 1 Foch had been summoned sum Bum sumi i hand monod It declares On one there thero was Invasion of or Germany with Its Incalculable political and economic consequences and on the other a a re reduction reduction re- re by 8 per cent o of tho the coal supply supply supply sup sup- ply to German consumers with the possibility however hoOVer 0 of remain remaining InS master of ones one's own house |