Show FREt FRENCH CH REPLY I HANGING FIRE America Waits for Word on Debt Funding Discussion I A O HI Jan an 3 The rhe I French suggestion regarding pay pay- payment pay payment ment of o the war ar debt of or Franco rance to the United States still was awaited anxiously ly tonIght bv by the theW i government I No o answer er to Secretary hughes cablegram requesting dor item rick to forward the text or of Ih the communication placed In his had been receiver received when hen the work ork of ar the dav day ended sod and Mr r Hughes left his office not to 10 notto return until Monda Monday I Meanwhile officials her here could mark marie time and hope that the delapl memorandum would rive nr-rive r rive nyc Monday and would auld contain something that would ju justify this Io In making It the basis for tor negotiations looking to an ul- ul ultimate ul ultimate arrangement for tor actual debt funding There wa was nothing more than an Rn expression of hop hope how haw hawyer however however ever yer that the memorandum would Ith aise I the tho th debt funding commission beaded by Secretary Mellon any any- anything any anything thing like a concerted concrete I plan of ot settlement I V VIi aa PARIS Jan Although Q 3 W th the memorandum of or Finance Min Mm- Minister ister Iter concerning the tha funding of time French to the tho united Slates Is considered by the as entirely unbinding unofficial and a a personal tale state statement ment of or French public opinion It lii ne nevertheless In the view of f political leaders put pul the question of French war debts in such a 0 way wayt t at negotiations negotiation must continue J he suggestions of ot M JI whIch et 0 handed to American Ambassador Herrick In the form formo or of a memorandum 11 it is s now Indi Indicated Ip wl w l Informed although French sources ate Insufficient to form torm th tOo I hasi ot or a serious conversation The AmerIcan Amerlan ambassador I is holding up these suggestions pending further I personal talks with French offic offic- offic officials Ida It I Is even esen thought In po- po po political circles that they may h be cabled to 10 Washington In in t their 11 form torm J MUM witti 1 I IS RESULT It Is by the French pi picas ess ha however ver that thai contact be bc un t the k mench lench minister of or fin fin- tin fin finance alice ance and American ambassadors In Paris larla ha has set moving me tile ques lues ques- ques question tion of or funding ar v ar debts and It ItIs ItIs it Is felt fell that thai something come came out aut of ot it The lempe impe which Mch for tor forthe the moment la is no long longer r toe Ibe ne semi semi- semi organ argan of ot the gO but which still often orten the or ot the foreign office sass sa a I the rhe question of dobl has haq now been posed In all Its am- am amplitude am amplitude It was as thought for tor a lang bong longtime time that the best aj of ot wearing out the debt question was as not nol to speak of It an and ond let It rail fall gentl Into oblivion But Bul the misfortune Is that each year the of the debts grows gros heavier ier ter through th the accumulation of at Interest t and the more moro they grow the he mOle moie an anxiety lety the creditors show J 00 00 |