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Show GERMANY WOULD DEFFJPAflNT ENVY FROM BERLIN GOING TO CONFER WITH REPARA- TIONS BODY 50,000,000 Gojd Marks Are Due Allies In Short Time Which Is Causing the Minister of Finance Much Worry Borlin. The German government has started nction which may result tn absolving Gormnny from mooting tho payment of 00,000,000 gold marks required by tho allies in Bending Dr. Fischer, chairman of the 'war debt amission, nnd Ilorr iSchroedcr, undersecretary under-secretary of tho ministry of finance, to Paris, to cpnfer with tho reparations repara-tions commission on tho question ot readjusting the present schedule of gold payments. Although this movo Is considered n temporary expedlont with tho prlmo purpose of Influencing tho deliberations delibera-tions nt PorlB, official flnnnolal circles would wolcome this revision us indicating indi-cating a gonornl solution of the presont pres-ont schedule of gold payments, which Chnncolor Wlrth has declared, Germany Ger-many is In no position to carry out, particularly since the recent collnpso of Gorman exchange. Officially it was stated Sunday that the Itolchsbnnk wob technically In n oosltlon to deliver !X),000,000 gold marks next woek, but that their ro-leaae ro-leaae from bnnk vaults would "bndly oxposo" the Institution, whose officials offi-cials bellevo that this available gold fund shall le devoted to steadying tho mark nt home nnd abroad. Tho mission undertaken by Dr. Flschor nnd Horr Schrocder at the Instigation In-stigation of tho govornment will bo carried out In the hope o( sustaining 'ho Rclchsbank'B position. Tho mission mis-sion will consider tho revision of tho latea for future gold pnymonts. Any formal request for an exact moratorium morator-ium will depend upon tho nature of tho pourparlers at Paris and the ne-fommodatlng ne-fommodatlng attitude of the reparations repara-tions commission. Banking officers bellevo thnt the progress which has marked these deliberations de-liberations in the Inst few weeks has tmtrlbutod materially to encourng- 'ng tho Gorman government In its decision de-cision to approach tho reparations commission at a tlmo when marks are filing for loss than five for ono cent. 'Th question, 'Can Germnny phy?' has now become fundamentally acute," said ono prominent official who bo-Moves bo-Moves that tho situation has simmered sim-mered to a question of udoptlng practical, prac-tical, lucid flnnnclnl policies which affect af-fect tho allies and Gormnny alike Reports from New York that Germany Ger-many hnd confessed herself to be Snnkrupt wore declared In official circles cir-cles to bo "Irresponsible nnd ridiculous." ridicul-ous." "It Is .not for us Germnns to sny wo nre bankrupt. Such n 'verdict must romo from qur creditors," ono lending official in the ministry of finance said. |