Show 1 I OUT l 1 OF f DAWES PLAN 11 l M UPTURN iL J 01 leavy ay Increase in il Cost of I Now Main Living Worry 1 I of French Statesmen Head Above Wate 1 i By Uy A. A r. r L. L I D United ll Iress Staff Correspondent PARIS PAlUS tan Jan 2 By fly A. A P. P p. After Alter Alteri I D i year crammed full of ot stirring vents touching both her i lonal tonal relations and her d domestic i fairs France sees seeg 1924 close with uglier ucher hopes for tho future S SI I This eventful even ful period has tiled a critical time in the destiny f France But this c country IH has lanas-ed lanas always to keep her ahead bove e water wale I The outstanding political and eco feco- co- co om Ie event of the year ear for l France rance as ras been the formulation of the tho awes Dawes report for settlement of or the problem and the LonOn Lonon Lonon Lon- Lon on accord between the al allies ies and andI Germany for putting this report ito nto effect But the due year 1924 also brought tin uch Ich important events as the corn corn- I lete political swing from the ight to the left in France in J he defeat of Premier Raymond and the election of Edourd rd Herriot the debacle of the franc I nd Its recovery through the aid of or he Morgan credit of he lie fifth assembly of the league or of orations at Geneva and the I ion by France of the soviet gov gov- of or Russia TEADY I G. GAIN SHOWN I Indicating that France all the chile hile has been quietly working to toI I et her own economic house in ori or- or er the latest official figures of i I he ministry of finance on Frances France's sports and imports for the firsten first en months of the years 1924 1923 u the la lardI last lard nd 1913 considered as ormal year before the war show showS I steady stead and considerable gain all an S long iff the line In jn this period of 1924 France ex ex- ex I goods of a total value of 3 francs which cents a gain of francs with the tho same P perIod Iod of ot and a gain Of ancs anes over this period of 1913 Dur- Dur ng the months of France tet imported goods of of a total otal value of francs representing a again gain aln of francs over this his period of 1913 During the ten months of 1924 franc France imported goods of a total value of 00 francs over 1923 and pOO 00 06 00 francs over 1913 It I should shoud be remembered however that t-ie t before rano ranc was on a gold basis the he war THE COST OF LIVING However nce l.-nce France still has a diri- diri I- I st cult cult road ahead The high cof coEd of iving now Is one of the biggest e problems before Premier Herriot a. a a that spell his defeat problem may SQ With the decline of the franc despite de- de IA spite pi te the fact that it now noW Is f anti and zed around 19 to the dollar dolar high prices life has the resulting increasingly difficult for r the French people ushered red Inthe in inthe t As the tho year 1924 was ushered the Dawes experts began to 0 assemble assemble In Paris under the vir- vir ual leadership of the United States n ual n April the Dawes experts finish finish- rt eti their Apri labors and made mad public th the b bhe be behe ous document that was tb he future i for the pay pay- by bv Germany of the damages aused in the war Highest official 1 praise of the tho report came from th the American merican government In Washing on and acceptance at least in In principle by the allied amed governments government and nd Germany was almost a foregone fore fore- I gone one conclusion SAI SA SAVES I S D flAY DAY y X While the deliberations of ef the Dawes experts were taking place fall rom Prom an the tire franc b began gan to fal average of 1910 to the Collar dolar dollar in it fell fel steadily to almost almos dollar in the latter part o of 28 26 to the dolar laler tH March When the franc had reached ache I MorI Mor- Mor this hia aIming level J. J Pierpont ran gan the the famous New York international I yan tonal Wai banker made rew his hi dramatic of the extension of n it credit credi to France The Thesa sa saved ed the he franc Th elections of May 11 1 provided Provide the fhe biggest sensation of the tho year In domestic affairs There Iwas complete swing away from was vas a a J 3 a bunging bringing nging to the P bl Her Tier tile the radical ma mayor or Lyons riot ship President Alexandre Mme Mine rard rard who was said to have allied In the too closely man to the boc national na- na H 15 s a par pardy y of which he was the founder was forced from office Herrio unPrecedented took the the SocIalists ad ld a dented step of demanding that the president resign rEsign Gaston elected to do succeed wa was v Protestant and land became the first of France president During the tho summer the r London ondon nu conference of bringing was assembled assemble about an for agreement agreement agree agree- the purpose between the tho allies and German Germany Ger- Ger ment alies ff man SIS SIS- many on put putting the tho Dawes plan Into effect Here there was seen of oC for r the first time In a couple France ssu-si ssu years real and o Great cooperation Br Britain n ln between on j the question The German queston Jih received c on a delegates also were basis H of equal Y A A. agree agree- a plan on putting the Dawes accord including an into S France Bel Belgium B lum and a Ger evacuation of tn the ny for military reached reache ear was Ruhr within a year on August 16 TIm rII meeting of the fifth assem assem- I The ine bly of the tho league of nations a ahas at in addition to the found additon Geneva other governments Premiers Pre Pre- heads of miers reads Herriot and MacDonald in at- at The differences between Te and Great Britain on European Euro Euro- France security and andI I disarmament penn sharply defined n ad arbitration were Geneva prOtOCOl at first but the Protocol I tentatively adopted last Jat was sig- sig France holds that her prompt hols f th fh protocol at Geneva lr r her shoulders th the removed from I has nas remove I urges of militarism an and andI I II imperialism |