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Show NOTES FAIL TO CLARIFY VIEWS ON REPARATION manta bow hava baan raealvad. Tha Italian government haa not ao far returned a written anawer, but -preaaed themaelvea aa In general agreement with tha vlewa and pro. poaala of hla majeaty'a government. (Cheera greeted thla announcement.) announce-ment.) "Tha French and Bllan government gov-ernment returned Independent re. pile. Hla majeety'a government hava devoled tha moat careful and anx-loua anx-loua consideration to thoee repliae. While we are fully conarloui of the friendly - language In which they were couched and tha cordial adlrlt by which they were animated; wa regretted not to find In them tha material for aendlng an allied aa-awer aa-awer to Ihe German note, la the dlipatch of which wa attache, ao much Importance. ' "Indeed, the draft reply auhralt. ted to hla ma)eety'a government waa not mentioned In tha French and. Belgian repllee, nor did thoee notea appear to hold out any proa, pact either of an early alteration of tha altuatlon In the Ruhr or of tha commencement of diecuaalone about reparation, to which hla raajestye government bad eagerly looked forward. "It la apparent that many week may aaally be consumed In the preliminary pre-liminary Interchange of opinion by tha aJllee on tha llnea now foreshadowed fore-shadowed by the latter, before any effective atep can be taken to terminate ter-minate tha preeent altuatlon. FIRM UNION DESIRED. "Hla majesty' government cannot can-not too often repeat that while regarding re-garding tha Interest of their aj-llea aj-llea aa bound up In our own. and shrinking aa they have throughout from any action which might b thought Indicative of allied disunion, dis-union, wa yet hold firmly to the view that tha problem now before all of ua cannot be eveded, and that while the allies might be occupied oc-cupied In exchanging viewa Id a spirit of unabated frlendllneaa on this r that detail of thla or that progbeal. the Kuropean situation, carrying with It all tha proaneeta of reparation payment to which the allies ara equally entitled, may sink Into Irretrievable ruin "In these clrcumatancea. Ma majeety'a government have decided to lay before parliament with the leaat poaeible delay the papers which have recorded their ' own view and endeavor. We ara Inviting In-viting the allies to agree to tha publication of tha note or atate-ments atate-ments on their part ta which reference refer-ence haa been made and which ara required to explain tha altuatlon a a whole. "Hla majesty's government entertains enter-tains tha hope that the publication of theae papera may assist 'in determining de-termining the real dimensions of the problem wtth which tha allies are confronted and may convince tha world of the Imperative neces-. alty of prompt and united action to deal with It." Tha 'prime - minister then mad tha earn atatement to the rnem-hera rnem-hera of the compiona that Lord Curaon made In the .upper chamber, cham-ber, expressing fegret that the government could not find enough material In the French and Belgian reaponSea to aend a Joint allied reply re-ply to the German note. British Parliament Given Joint Statement That French and Belgian Replies Re-plies Are. Unsatisfactory RUHR SITUATION LACKS STATEMENT EngIandSeesDanget f European Situation Sinking Sink-ing Into Irretrievable Ruin; to Publish Papers LONDON, Aug. t (By A. P.) Prima Minister Baldwin Joined with Lord Curson, the foreign aecrctsy,' in Informing parliament today that the repliea by France and Belgium to the British reparation not seemed to hold out no prospect of a settlement of the Ruhr altuatlon In the near future nor the opening of a discussion regarding reparations. repara-tions. - Great Britain had submitted to the other allies (he draft of a Joint allied reply to tha last German reparation rep-aration communication and Great Britain had attached very great Importance Im-portance to the dlepatch of auch a reply, the premier aald. Neither France nor Belgium, however, had mentioned thie reply In their answer to the Brltieh communication and Great Britain, to the regret of her government, wa unable to find in these responses sufficient material for the dispatch of a Joint allied reply re-ply to Germany. Realising the danger of the European Euro-pean eltuatlon alnking Into gre-trlevable gre-trlevable ruin during prolonged ne-gotlatlona ne-gotlatlona among the allies, the British govsmment holding that the problem cannot ba evaded, the statement aaid. haa Invited the allies al-lies to agree to the publication of their communications In the hope that theae documents, together with these prepared by Great Britain may convince the world of the necessity ne-cessity of prompt and united action. NEW OROUNO BROKEN. ! ' Tha prima minister. In the house lof commons and Lord Curaon in the houee of lorda, began their Identical addressee by reciting the history of -the recent negotiations. They then broke new ground in this manner: 'The government drew up a draft , reply which they forwarded on Jul) ! with a covering not to the allied al-lied governmenta. "In thla draft reply, tha Brltieh government dealth with the various proposals eoitalned In the German memorandum and they ogpresssd tha opinion that while nothln, should ba done which wa Inconsistent Incon-sistent with the stipulations of ths treaty of Versailles advantage would be derived by an examination of Impartial experts, in cooperation with the reparations commission Into Germany's capacity to pay. "A regard the guaranteea offered of-fered the German government, the British wsnt on te point out in ths draft reply that tha economic worth of any auch guarantee muet largely large-ly depend on faetoro of which the Oermaa government In lta mem orandum had made no mention, auch aa etablllslng the mark and balancing the German budget, and that no guarantee could be effective effec-tive unleaa provision were made for some form of Internatlonnal control over the German financial admlnia-t admlnia-t ration. ' RESI8TENCK PROTESTED. "Tha reply ended." continued the prime . mlnlstsr, "by advising tht Osrman government that If It da-sired da-sired a resumption of the Inquiry to withdraw without further delay, the ordinencee and decrees which organised and fomented the policy of paeeive reeiatance. and to unequivocally un-equivocally disavow the acts of violence vio-lence and sabotage which In some cases had accompanied it. t "The reply expreeeed the belie that auch action on the part of Germany would Involve reconsideration reconsider-ation by the occupying powers of the conditions of their occupation and the gradual return to the normal nor-mal feature of Industrial ilfs in the Ruhr. "In the covering note with which thl draft reply waa sent to the allied al-lied government, the Brltieh government gov-ernment gave a fuller explanation of the vlewa which they held on all these point, and they urged upon their elites that an interallied dla. cuaalon should be opened with aa litUe delay aa poaeible. whether by conference or otherwise, for the purpoee of elaborating a enmpre-henelve enmpre-henelve plan for a general and final settlement. . ITALY FAVORS ENGLAND. "The repllsa of the allied govern- |