Show n l CRITICAL ERA IN I. I DEDI SESSIONS I BEliEVED NEAR p ix PARIS rAJUS March l 2 Guessing AP-Guessing machines beg began n to work worle full tuU blast today on the th probable outcome outcome of the deliberations of the second Dawes committee on reparations The themselves were taking a week end rest and those who were inclined to speculate encountered nothing In the way jay of authoritative Ive comment to check their mental meanderings rings The lack ot of precise announcements announcements announce announce- ments from the subcommittees or from participants In the conversations conversations conversa- conversa between experts has made the Work ot of deduction difficult But everybody e who undertook to forecast fore fore- wt cast seemed to agree that next week would be a critical era In the of the commission TROUBLE The They also agreed that if the experts ex- ex x- x pass that period without encountering en- en countering serIous trouble the rest of t their road will be easier Speculations as to the ultimate i of She commIssion ranged all the tho way from annuities ot of gold Jold marls marks with a total of to marks as yearly payments with a total ot of The extremes extremes ex- ex of this range represented roughly the positions advanced by bythe bythe the Germans and the French Less Interested speculators were inclined to strike something like a medium between these minimum and maximum figures FRANCES FRANCE'S STAND It was predicted In some quarters that it if the experts propose a total of cC less than the marks or about as Germanys Germany's bill to the allied countries countries coun- coun tries for war costs and damages it would not be acceptable to the French The argument advanced in favor of this conclusion was that France in such an event would have nothing to gain by abandoning abandoning abandon abandon- ing the present Dawes plan which thus far has produced all that was expected ot of it |