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Show Premier Millerand and Lloyd1 George to Seek Agreement on Reparations Clause I PARIS, May 4. Premier Millerand is going to London next week to conifer con-ifer with David Lloyd George, the (British prime minister, regarding financial fi-nancial questions. It is expected an agreement will be reached with regard to execution of the reparations clauses of the treaty of Versailles. The premiers will also agree on the basis of tho discussions to be held with tho German representatives at the Spa meeting on May 25. The French viewpoint is th,at they will not discuss the principle of any clause of tho treaty and will take up with the Germans' only the manner of applying the treaty's terms. What practically amounts to a modification modi-fication of the reparations clauso will be discussed in the, form of proposed minimum and maximum totals of reparations. rep-arations. The French probably will not accept a lower minimum than 100 billion marks gold, but are likely to consent to fixing the maximum reparation payable pay-able by Germany at 150.000,000,000 marks, which was the limit the American Ameri-can experts reported they found Germany Ger-many able to pay. The minimum jjum. may be divided into annuities of 3,000,000,000 marks, as discussed at San Remo. |