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Show ALLIES WILL I I GERMANY TO PAY HER INDEMNITY ; Reparations Problems Settled by An Agreement Signed In Belgian Meeting. i BELGIUM HAS FIRST CLAIM I ON GOLD FROM TEUTONS ; Only Payment America Gets Is Tor Expenses of Yankee Troops Along Rhine. I SPA, Belgium. July 16. Allied governments gov-ernments will take appropriate meas-ijurei meas-ijurei to nssist Germany In floating loans Intended to meet her internal requirements re-quirements and to assist her In the .r.mp! discharge of her debt to the jallies. according to' tho agreement signed here today ''' representatives j Of Great Britain, Itniy. rriinro. Japan, Belgium and Portugal, settling problems prob-lems relative to reparations. Tho distribution dis-tribution of Indemnities remaining .from AuStrla-Hungary and Pulgarla was also provided for in tho agree-J agree-J inent I Belgium is given priority in the payment pay-ment of L'roOn.OOO.OOO gold f rnnrs, nnd the agreeinenl enume.rales. the eecurl-jtte.- for such piior, ty. The allies also Lar ranged for rmhod o( 'aluing and allbcnXlng the ships surrendered by Germany and l er nllies One of the articles of the agreement, fixing the cost of the occupation armies arm-ies on a uniform basis, awslts discus-!slon discus-!slon wltll the United States before fi-inal fi-inal adjustment. M(. COAL PRO l I C Oh j The German reprpsi ntatlves signed ith coal piotocol 'iirawn uu by the allied al-lied representatives at i;46 o'elock tonight. to-night. iHereb) Bottling one of the most I difficult questions which has come up I In the present ulscossior.s Signatures iweie affixed to the document aftei a four-hour session at the Villa Kran-I Kran-I euse. iiiid hour of which was spent by I the Germans in a cabinet consulta-j consulta-j tion. lhe re was a conflict over introduction introduc-tion in the protocol of the menace of (occupation of additional German territory terri-tory after uctober 15 next, if German I co.-tl deliveries were not up to the stipulated nuantlty 6,000 0u0 tons 'by that date. Tho allies decided to .drop this clause of tho protocol below be-low the signature line. 17. S. IS LEFT OIT, Then the Germans objected to the I preamble, which declared that the deletions de-letions set forth in the document hail been taken In common accord by the 'allied and German delegations The Germans contended It was not by com-; com-; mon accord, but by sole will of th'j I allies that any further occupation would occur. Before the arrival of the German delegates today, the allied al-lied premiers completed their consideration consid-eration of the distiibutlon of reparations repara-tions due from Girninny As finally adopted, the reparations, will be made ion the following basis France, fifty-two per cent. Great Britain 22 per cent, Italy 10 per cenl. B Icriui.i eluhl per cent anil Japan and Portugal each three-fourths of one, per cent. The remaining 6 V2 per cent I will be divided between Serbia, Hu-I mania and Poland. Besides the eight per cent Belgium1 is to receive, she will retain the prl- j orlty right to 2,60,0,000,000 marks from' which will be- paid aunui loaned liol-gium liol-gium by the allies. AMENDED TERMS UN COAL, Tho amended terms of the coal agreement between the allies and Germans Ger-mans as Blgned today follow: First The German government un-l dertakCS to place at th disposal Of I the nllies from August 1, 1920. for the' ensuing six months two million tons of coal per month, this figure having been approved l the reparations commission Deliveries are to be averaged av-eraged in order to take into account 1 floods of the Hhlne. Second The allied governments will credit the reparation accounts With the fulle of this coal as far as it j lb) delivered by ran or inland naviga-tkon, naviga-tkon, and valued at the German In-1 i i rial price In accordance with para-! graph els A of annex V of part eight of tbe treaty of Versailles. In addi-l tion. In consideration of the admission' of the right of the allies to hays coal! of a specified kind and quality delivered deliv-ered to them, a premium of flvo gold' marks per ton, payable In cash by thts party taking delivery, shall be applied to the acquisition of foodstuffs fori I German miners. The allies consent' to advance a further premium of flvo marks per ton on al deliveries by land o. sea. Third During the period of coal I deliveries provided for in the above' .stipulations, paragraphs i, 3 fUid 4l 'of. the draft control protocol of July It, 1920. shall be put into force at once In the modified form of an annex an-nex hereto. (This relates to the establishment of an allied coal commission in German Ger-man N Fourth An agreement shall bo made forthwith between the allies for the distribution of the LTppei Slleslan I ( oavl i;TM uu pauuijuoj) yv Allies Will Aid Germany to Pay Her Indemnity i ontlnued From Page On i coal output by a commission on which1 Germany shall be- represented. This i agreement shall be submitted for the approval of the reparations commission, commis-sion, Fifth- -The commission, on whu h ' Germany shall be represented, shall: ireel forthwith at Essen. Us purpose' will be to seek means by which con-' dltlons of life among the miners frith regard to food ami clothing can bo1 improved with a view to the better working of the mines VLTt UN M IX E OF IN s in Sixth The allied governments de-i de-i lar, i heir readiness lo make advances to Germany cu.ua 1 in amount to the difference between the price paid un- dei purygraph two of the above and; in- export price of German coal f. 0, 1". in German ports, or Ihe English I export price f. o b In English ports, v lilchever ino be the lowest as laid 1 down in paragraph slx-B of annex 5.' part 8. of the treaty of Versailles. I i'bese advances shall be made In accordance ac-cordance with articles 23C and 251 of the treaty of Versailles. They shall! enjoy absolute priority over all other allied claims on Germany The ad- M.nces shall be made at the end of j each month in accordance with the j number of tons delivered and at the average f. o. b. price of coal during the period Advances on account! hall be made by the allies at the end! of the first month without waiting fori the exact figure. Seventh if by November 16. 1920. !t is ascertained that the total deliveries deliv-eries lor August. September and Oc- lave not reached sue million tons the allies will proceed to the occupation occupa-tion of a further portion of German territory, either In the Ruhr or some other region. nn |
