Show PARIS SEES CHANCE TO PRESS U Ii Sa SaTO S TO Th CANCEL HER t MR AR DEBT ET Newspaper Warns A Action tion Will Be Taken if America Insists On Participating in inGerman inGerman German Reparations Muddle I i I 1 PARIS July 21 as Ne-as Ne es Service Ilie 21 semi official semi newspaper Temps today warned arned the United States that it Ir IrAm Am participate In the re- re reparation reparations re reparations negotiations Washington would be pressed to cancel war ar debts This editorial was bas based d upon the reparations note now no under scrutiny by the Cor foreign of- of of office nc flee fice and upon a a report from front Lon Lon- Loni London Lon Lon- London London i don that President Harding may I gh gio e his support to a a plan lan for an nt arbitration commis commis- commission anI I sion slon of experts to deal with the Ruhr ir and r reparations lons lers I the lh Matin MaUn Sunday morning mornine will print an saying that Frince cannot accept the th British I not note I IThe Tin The Temps In its review of the situation said in part It is preferable not to name a commission of experts as ns proposed In the plan of ot Secretary of State Charles Evans Ivans Hughes Hughs It would be better to leave Secretary I Hughes and the United States Stales out of ils America made a separate trea trea- treaty trea- trea treaty treaty outI I ty of peace and a separate reparation reparations tion agreement with Germany If America should join an arbitration I commission which Germany sug-I sug sug- sug suggests sue gets Iranee and Belgium v would point out that the German debt j cannot be reduced Inter Inter- allied war debts are art cancelled This would result in general pres pres- pres-I pres pressure sure cure upon United States for debt cancellation which would have Its effect In American In- In International In International and Internal politics COWIE COMMENT T IN LN nulls PARI J PARIS July BY 21 21 By The Asso Asso- Asso Associated Press Th rh Th shroud of or offic of official tic tic- ial lal secrecy thrown about the Brit Brit- BritIsh Brit Brit- British British ish note on reparations reparation and ac- ac ac accompany companying company ine documents which were hed from London this tills morn morn- morn ins tog does docs doe not prevent nt the press pres from dilating aUng on the subject The papers however confine most of their attention to discuss discuss- discussIng discussing discuss Ing the British comments comment and ind dis- dis dispatches dispatches dis dispatches patches Tho rho speculations thu thus I are firstly that the British cabinet expresses cs Its it approval roval of o the ap- ap appointment ap appointment ot of a n committee of ex- ex experts ex export ports port to reassess the lh German man debt ap Buch auch uch committee to bo be nominated by bythe bythe bythe the reparations commission and tl t act as s adviser ad to that the latter clause being added in order to comply comply- with the th terms of the Versailles treaty E Such procedure Is generally no- no accepted ac accented as on grounds but the Temps argues that the text teat of the treaty does it Tho The appointment of or this committee is condemned as aa futile and dangerous The opinion is at- at almost al almost most unanimously expressed that It would be b certain to base Its es- es estimate es on the insolvency of o the German exchequer rather than ou on the productivity of German Industry Indus- Indus try Second Secondly Secondly note not avoids condemning Gorman German passive reals- reals tance but comments on the tho regret regret- regrettable table effects effect ot or the Ruhr Struggle on the general economic con This point gives opportunity for tor a repetition or tho the statement that French public opinion will not be b satisfied without formal and tf renunciation ot or passive panle pa lv ru ore re before beCore can renew with Germany I Je I Thirdly that the note does not r to the tho question oC or I debts 1 he papers assert that the view slew cannot 1 be e changed chanced and thit t reparations and debts are inseparable The Tho negotiations now under 1 ar nrc generally regarded as aa certain to to be long lone and l I IOU but it Is believed they mu must t an and in an agree agree- agreement agreement ment I ment as a rupture among the allies Is considered unthinkable I C c 1 1 DON LO July 21 By By Th Tho As- As As Associated PresAn Press Pres An An Indication or of orthe I orI the extreme care extended ext in draft draft- draftIng drafting ine dratt-ine Ing the new British com coin communication communication was given riven by Sir Y I Wil William ham liam Johnson Hicks financial see sec sec secretary of the treasury during b a ns speech to the Primrose league In InCI CI stal Palace today We Ye have been Bravely gr el anxIous the past jew lew weeks regarding re for for- foreign foreign elm tor-elm eign affairs said Sir William with aih Ih a constant series erlea of cabinet In the last fortnight CortRIght to arrIve at some tome position ot or stability on the continent ending in the dispatch or of o a a very tong long considered en anxiously cared ared for draft let let- letter letter let letter ter in the hope of ising ati-ising Ing at a solution joint with the allies s so 80 oas as to ensure the peace of oC the thea orld a orld orid The government declared the sl elker desired to see trio tte late en- en en pay what h he could and that right justice be done to the the- th claims of tho the allies as well as Great Brit Brit- Britain Brit Brit- Britain am ain but it was IS impossible not to o that until stability was achieved jn n Europe the en f- f Great vitally do- do could never be bo He appealed to the allies and to the world for what was as the worlds world's greatest world need need world peace JA- JA DARK D BERLIN July 21 Dy 21 By rho Press Press rho German govern govern- nt m has not yet et received a n copy of the British Br note noto on I It was stated In official quarters On Thursday n to a 11 semi official tie t le gos- gos nent ern neat era instructed the th German ambassador at London that In ef- ef ef effect feet no German Ht would be expected to sug suggest est to the hc pop pop- population pop population of ot Illegally occupied areas to abandon passive resistance be- be be before fore adequate guarantees es were glY- glY glYn en en n that those thos arena areas area would b be evac evac- evacuate evac- evac evacuated evacuated l in the shortest possIble time bT July By 21 Dy By Inter Inter- International International national News benle HErr Herr st Hamer German minister to Hag Jong- Hagland lard land today received renewed in- in instructions In Instructions from Berlin B that the German pOOI people le cannot accept mil mU- milItary mil military occupation of Germany as a a I sanction to pa ments of military without a pledge of e evacuation e The rhe message to the German Gorman am- am am ambassador said bald In effect No I No German government can cnn ex- ex expect ex expect the population of unlawfully occupied areas aren to reduce or give up passive resistance without aim aim- sim simultaneously receiving some Bome guar guar- guarantee guarantee anteo antee of ot evacuation oll at the earliest I pO possible date REPORT MADr M NEW YORK July 21 Dy By By The Tho As Associated elatEd Press Dissension among the Iho ames allies Is the th root ot of many current international tiei ties because Germany still blind anti an unchanged In character ho- ho bo Heves It possible to exploit this dl- dl dis a j bO-j lon Professor HenrI Lichten- Lichten Lichten berger ot of the th who was b by the Carnegie en endowment for tor international peacE to investigate the th world crisis says aye sayIn In a report In an Introduction to the th report d E c de dc Constant says saS It it itIs itis Is essential for tor the future of or civil cIvil- cIvilIzatIon civilization itself that the tho allIes ot of should hould not abandon her herand herand rand n-rand and this for their ban own v n sakes the oC the allies aUtes must be established P President Nicholas Murray durray But Dut- But Butler leI ler of Columbia university in the despite declared that the difficulties arising from trout sary vary ary- ary Ing national viewpoints there Is ts present ground for hope that at atno atno no distant day a substantial agree agree- agreement agreement ment will be arrived at between the Ule French and German governments nn |