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Show PROPOSALS NEARER ALLIED STANDPOINT GERMAN LEADERS ASSERT NEW REPARATIONS PROPOSALS CAN ; NOT BE IGNORED. Text Accepted by German Cabinet and Cabled to United States. Teutons Believe That Entente Cannot Afford to Ignore Proposals. l'.ei-liii. The Cerinan. counter-pro-posals on reparations were presented to Kllis l.oring Dressel. the American commissioner. Sunday evening. April -4, and were immediately transmitted to the United States. The government's failure to deliver the note to the American mission Saturday Sat-urday night, according to the promise of Foreign -Minister Simons to the reichstag. caused numerous rumors which ropresMited the cabinet as being be-ing all but disrupred by dissension over the proposal. The protracted deliberations, it was said, were due to conflicting opinions on the phraseology of the note. The cabinet is said to be united regarding the fundamental principles underlying Germany's new offer and also assumes complete responsibility for the note, as it does for the step which led to Germany's Ger-many's appeal to President Harding. Reichstag leaders were so informed Sunday evening. The German People's party leader stated that the new reparations proposals pro-posals Germany is making are such that the entente cannot afford to ignore ig-nore them; that Germany, in view of the offer of the United States, is determined de-termined to make a reparations offer such as will spare President Harding any embarrassment and not make Germany appear ridiculous in her present pres-ent action. This party leader declared that France would have the least of reasons rea-sons to reject the new proposals, which be hinted as having been designed de-signed to represent a liberal compromise compro-mise by Germany. The new German proposals were said by the German People's party leader to represent a liberal compromise compro-mise between the demands of the entente en-tente made in Paris and Germany's offer at London, He said they would name far-reaching guarantees covering cover-ing economic obligations to be assumed as-sumed by Germany in connection with her present proposal. The German counter-proposals, says a dispatch to Jhe Central News from Berlin, are very long. The first part is in the nature of a protest, but in finality they are appreciably nearer a fuller realization of the allies' standpoint. stand-point. The German cabinet unanimously unani-mously accepted them.. It is understood that in the event of the occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany, says a Renter dispatch from Hythe, that no British troops will be employed, but there will be some cavalry cav-alry and tanks to show the solidarity of the allies. |