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Show Baldwin May Discuss Debts With Poincare French and British Pre miers to meet and Thresh Oat New, Settlement Basis. v WEBB MILLER. PAWS. Aug. II fBv tT. P.I A eeminffldar announcement that I Vernier Pomrar will meet Prim Minister Baldwin of Oreat Britain to discuss reoa rations, following the British leeder'e return from hie vacation in Atx-Lee-Ralna caused considsrsbls sxcltsmsnt In official circles here tonlsht. . Msnv observers saw -in tha announcement an-nouncement Indlcatlona that the French orsmlsr Is willing to make a final effort to prevent a oomolete ruoture In the Franco-British entente, en-tente, hflldln at lesst a semblance of a united front toward Germany. Person close to the premier, however, hsd litis hoDe that anv new confeiaaca would meet with ucoeea Thev Minted to the record of the many oast conferences apd conversation conver-sation bstwssn Britain and French leaders and aaw In the universal failure to harmonise the Anglo-French Anglo-French vlewoolnts proof that tha ssssntlsl Intsrests of the two countries coun-tries are such that united action toward Germany le very Imooeelble. Advance Information on the text of Iolnrare's reolv to the British reparations nste Indicated the pessimists pes-simists orobsblv were correct in their forersits. It wss undsrstood the reolv which was being studied in Brussels todav befor Its delivery de-livery In London, orobsblv Mondav, refuses to chance the agreement of Mir. lttl. for distribution of tier-man tier-man oavmenta. althousrh Polncsr sxoreseed willlntess to cam-el a part of the German debt If an equivalent amount of Inter-allled debts are cancelled. The reolv confirm th French demand for a minimum of twenty-Ix twenty-Ix billion gold mark for this country which would maks th total to-tal German debt about flftv billion bil-lion marks, even after comoensa-Uoa comoensa-Uoa for th Interallied debt. . ENTENTE HANGING BV ' THREAD, CHAMBERLAIN SAYS. MANCHESTER. England; Aug. II (By A. P.) Addressing tha member mem-ber of th Weet Birmingham Cn-tonlet Cn-tonlet association tonight, Austen Chamberlain, former i-hahrellor of th exflisutio,' dec tared ths "entente "en-tente I hanging oy a thread and Iny clumsy handling of the repara-tiona repara-tiona qusstion at this moment msy snap that thread and undo tha work of tha last twalv or fifteen years." Ha characterised the government latest note to France as inconsistent. inconsis-tent. Illogioal and futile, and pleaded plead-ed for caution In a situation wnich ho said was fraught with peril for Great Britain, th allies, Europe and the world. "Germany I abnoit at tha blink of disaster and threatened with revolution," Mr. Chamberlain added. "She I In peril of starvation because be-cause of the reckless f inane In which she Indulged. The entente Is In jeopardy and I plead for caution cau-tion and foreslghtlnssyltiglt." |