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Show ALLIES AGREE ON HOW TO DUE ; FOE REPARATION ! France to Get 52 Per Cent:' England 22; Italy 10 and Belgium Eight (CONFERENCE AT SPA TO BE OPENED ON MONDAY French Newspaper Says En-; tente Will Require Payment of 3 Billion Marks BRUSSELS. July 3. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press! An agreement has virtually vir-tually been reached by the allied premiers pre-miers in conference here with regard to the division of Herman reparations, on the basis of fifty-two per cent to France, at 22 per cent to Great Britain, Bri-tain, ten per cent to Italy, eight per cent to Belgium and five per cent to Serbia. It was stated here today The remaining three per cent will be divided divid-ed among the other allies. Including Rumania. Portugal and Japan. Italy 'also will receive certain economic 'and financial advantages I This tentative settlement was declared de-clared to have been arrived at in a 'conference of the French. Bldtltih, Ital- i tan and Belgian delegates. Word was received today that the, German delegation to the Spa confer-l ene. would cross the frontier at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. reaching Spa at 3 p. m. Bl I t.ll M IN FORM. I BRUS8BL8 Julv 3. (By the As- j sociated Press ) Belgian delegates to (he allied COBfercnc here anfe under-, rtoon to be si!,ndin;;. firmly for the payment to their country of twenty per cent of the indemnity to be paid i by Germany. Belgian delegates are showing great surprise that they should'be required to make sacrifices for the sake of Italy. Owing to the failure of the premiers pre-miers to come to an agreemenl terday. this morning's -e-sion ot the supreme council was replaced bj Informal In-formal conferences at the headquar-1 ters of Premier Lloyd George of Great j Britain, Whether an agreement is reached) or not the various delegations will leave Spa tomorrow. It being held that i any disagreement is but a question of detail and one in which Germany is not concerned FOR ERM I NY. i PARIS. July 3. The Matin in discussing dis-cussing the Brussels conference of the tallied council dec lares the alius still adhere to the plan adopted at the! J Boulogne conference b w hich Ger-many Ger-many would be called upon to pay 'three billion marks In gold and an-hulties an-hulties to be determined later I'nder this plan Germany would receive Immediate Im-mediate aid that would assist in herj : rehabilitation. Agreement has been reached by thej I supreme council as to the test of a note concerning the execution of the Versailles treat) which will be pre-, rented to the German delegation at I Spa This note I- sfid to insist that Germany enact law abolishing com -1 pulsory military service and that her, armv be reduced to 100. ooo men. In addition, a stipulation Is made, according ac-cording to report that the strenctb d' this force be so scattered that it cannot can-not In future be utilised as the framework frame-work of an important armv BKl SSELS. July 2. The official communication dealing with the al- ;lled conference today Bays: I nder the presidency of Marshal Foch, military naval and aeronautical aeronauti-cal experts. Generals Magllns, Wev-gand. Wev-gand. BackvlUe-West, Groe. Marlnet-tl. Marlnet-tl. Walamatu. Marshal Wilson and Captain Roper: Admirals Levavasseur, Charlton ami Grassl, and Rear Admiral Admi-ral Tlda, drew up a Jlsi of violatlbhs 'and non-executions ol military, naval! land aeronautical clauses of the treaty! ! of Versailles. The document will be submitted to the chiefs of govern-1 ment at their next meeting.' |