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Show FIVE POWERS Ml CGNFERENCE ON ! WORLD STATUS Meeting Declared Second in Importance to Versailles Peace Sessions ; LLOYD GEORGE AMD PREMIER BRIAND THERE ! German Disarmament, Reparations Repar-ations and Other Problems to Be Solved PARIS, JanJ 21. Representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy. Bel-gulm Bel-gulm and Japan gathered here today for a conference which .kernel semml Jin importance only to thcil preceding J-he signing of 'he treaty of Versailles. The principal figures of the meeting were David Lloyd George. British prime minister, and Artstide Brland who last week Assumed the post of president of the coun-ll of the French republic. About these mon the negotiations of it he conference :re expected to revolve I during the coming week and i' was Ibelfeved when the conference will have flnalh- adjourned German disarmament, dis-armament, reparations and other problems prob-lems will have been solved. i3 ES t I N IS OPES ED i The meeting of the commlsslonvof the supreme council, origin illy formed luring the peace conference, began al 11.30 a. m., the discussion of German disarmament being" first on the pro- Igruni. ! At 1 p. m. the conference adjoui m-n lafter having ocvotcd all of ilo- Lime Of Its first session to hearing Marshal Ifoch, Field Harahal Sir Henry Hughea Wilson, Of tii? Mrittsh lio.erial staff attd Field Genet; Maurice Noelitt. head of the French .nlfllaTy ftiiasloii in Berlin on eliarmament question. The S'.'sslo.". was set tor four 'clock. DISARMAMENT PJtOBZiEM The ticrnian disarmament discus-islon discus-islon is expected to turn mostly on the ineisuies to he employed i. nr'.ng Germanv to comply with the peace tr-at;.. As the aides are supposed to be agreed Germany must finally d arm effectively. It la understood I Franco doeH not want to apply the i penalty of occupation of further ia r-! r-! man territory, provided the treaty 1 confirmed Nevertheless, Premier Brland is expected to take a firm at- :it ode The reparations question Will come I up on the report of the allie d experts who met tho Germans at Brussels, In Iwhiih ihev . mr, mend that, pendlnsi final determination Of Germany's ttftal I dept. Ocrinanv shall iay five annual I installments of 3.000.000 francs m gold, of which the minimum in cash Its to be fixed hy'the allies. REPORT OF EXPERTS The experts will recommend that Germany be allowed to r tain 300,000 tons of shipping and that the expenses of the occupation of the RhjAeland ot reduced. They will reject the German l. mauds for an ind-flnlte shim resu..i o; the plebiscite In Fppei Sih-1:t, thc-postponement thc-postponement of payments in cash, the restitution of sequestrated German property abroael which has not been liquidated, so that Germany may use-it use-it as security for credits, and a reduction reduc-tion in Germany's coal deliveries. The horseshoe shaped table lp the clock room was sei exactly as for the former meeting, or.lv that instead in-stead of Georges Clemenceau in the chair Of the presiding offlct '" Arstlde Brland. tho Ifrench premier, occupied the place with Prenjler Lloyd George, of Great Britain, at his right, ihv place formerly held by President Wilson. Wil-son. GERM N BJ P VB VJ IONS The deliberations later were to ln-clude ln-clude the highly importanl issue of German reparations and the sum anel the manner of their payment, were conducted in the strictest secrecy, the officials of the Eteneh ion Ign offo c receiving Instructions to have nothing whatever to say to newspaper men. It was announced that an official communique would be Issued after each session, but that given out after the first session today revealed nothing noth-ing beyond the fact that Premier Brland welcomed the delegates and Ihc disarmament question was considered. con-sidered. TRADE WITH Rl Resumption of trade relations with Russia by allied governments which would entail a suit of conditional recognition of tho soviet regime in Moscow appeared to be a topic which would bo discussed seriously during the next week. In Connection with this the note gent by ('resident Wilson Wil-son to Paul Hyman, president of the assembly of lh league of nations on Saturday In which Mr. Wilson demanded de-manded that the allies assume "a hands off" .-tftltude toward the Russian Rus-sian nation, appeared to bo of prime importance. |