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Show PRE READY 10 f ON BERLIN IililL FORCE REPARATION PAY-Ument, PAY-Ument, either alone or in ! COMMON WITH ALLIES. wPllved That Berlin Government la &HTvVel Aware That There Remains HHJ Ho Room for Procrastination Hl After End of Month. SBlUrl! - It Is no longer doubted In jHrclrs licre considered to lmvo tho jjHjt information tlmt Franco will, Jlflthcr alone or In common with the JRflJLy, take radical action ugulnst Gcr- vBrny if satisfactory nssurunco regard- H: Hie payment of reparations nro not ,. . Hrtluwiilng by May 1. .""Hwhat form tlio action will tuke Is '"Jit a matter for surmise, but semi- ,Bfcl:d opinion Is that It will he such i S to Impress tho German people as 'Key have not been Impressed since He armistice. -HTlie occupation of tho Ituhr vulley jJKid the .cntlro Industrial region of AftBtstpImlla Is advocated by some. tbers are convinced that the French S-oy should this time go to Ilerlln, In WLiet to make sure, they argue, of flu- Kilns a task which they hold would I H? cu,CTe' nnle" II,oro "Ply In tho " Hid I')' this method than through the Hicccsslve application of lesser pen-MBtlcs. pen-MBtlcs. h is thought In official circles here rMit the Ilerlln government Is well Hre that there remains no room for .Hrocrustlnatlou after the end of this -'Booth. Hence, after falling to Interest 'He United States in her case, as tho -t'Hrencli Interpret tho outcome of tho jHoceot correspondence between Her- fHfa and Washington, Germany Is tin- HJerstood to hnvu made n tentative cf- Hort to draw Switzerland Into tho rep- jlHntlons question as a mediator. It H uinlerstod Czccho-Slovnkln is dls- WHoaed to Join In tho application of ceo- Muraic penalties against Germany, and JHtea to contrlhuto to nillltnry ineus- Hrt' if desired. A change In the French government jHiMajr with n cahlnot headed by for- "lHier President Polncnre In power, Is yHredlcted In well-informed pnrllamcn- I H17 circles, In case 1'rcinler ltrland H'ou''' not 8Ucceu1 Ia putting effec-Hite effec-Hite pressure on Germany. |
