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Show Proposals nearer allied standpoint IthMAN leaders assert new KSarations proposals can I "not be ignored. lr..t Aee:pted by German Cabinet and WrMtd to United States. Teutons I Believe That Entente Cannot I Afford to Ignore Proposals. I Ik-rim - 'I'lio German counter-pro-I, '.i, n reparations wero present' l Fill "-"'S Brcssel, th0 A'urlcn ll.Hnlv-lon.-r, Sunday evening, April R ml were lmme.llntely transmitted Im'tlH- Inlted States. I The government's failures to deliver the note to the American mlislon Sat-I Sat-I r.hiv night, according to the promise K Foreign Minister Simons to the IrPlrWdP. caused numerous rumors ninth rcprefMitcd the cabinet as bo-log bo-log nil but disrupted by dissension B.,vnr the proposal. The protracted deliberations, it was .aid tluo t0 conflicting opinions Ion the phraseology of tho note. Tho riblnet is said to be united regarding the fundamental principles underlying Ctrm:.nv's new offer and also assumes conipU-to responsibility for the note, as lit does fcr tho step which led to Ger-Initnj's Ger-Initnj's appeal to President Harding. ltelchtB leaders were so Informed Sandfly evening. The tierman People's party leader stated that tho new reparations pro-pos:ds pro-pos:ds Germany Is making arc such that the entente cannot afford to lg-nore lg-nore them; that Germany, In view of tbc offer of tho United States, Is do-Btermtned do-Btermtned to make a reparations offer liucli ns will sparo President Hurding iny embarrassment and not make Cermany appear ridiculous in horpres- ent na on. This party leader declared that France would have the least of rcn- torn to reject the now proposals, vlikli he hinted as having been do- tlgnrd to represent n liberal compfo- wlw b.v Germany. The new German proposals were mid by the German Pcoplo's party leader to represent a liberal compro I nilso between tho demands of the en- tente made In Paris and Germany's offer at London. Ho said they would I rami' far-reaching guarantees cover-Hl.i; cover-Hl.i; economic obligations to bo as- named by Germany In connection with Hlrr present proposal. B The German counter-proposals, says idimtcl. to the Central News from Hterlin, are very long. The first part Hk in the nature of a protest, but In finality they nre appreciably nearer a faller realization of the allies' stand- polar The German cabinet unnnl-Hmousl.v unnnl-Hmousl.v accepted them. It Is understood that In tho event of the ouiipatlon of the Ruhr region of fienniii.v says a Heuter dispatch from llwlu that no British troops will bo tmplojcd. but there will be 'some env- airy nnd tanks to show the solidarity of ihc iillle". |