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Show I WE 'ill! VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT I AMBASSADOR IS NOT SERIOUSLY HURT.JS1GRD Harvey Stunned When Axle of Car Breaks Throwing Him Out WILL KEEP HIM IN BED Premiers Golf as Experts Work Out Plan of Reparations Re-parations Payments CAXNES, France. Jan. 9. (By The i A.-socle ted Pros? I George Hnrwv.. American ambassador to Great Bn- j tain, narrowly escaped death here to -1 day In an automobile accident. Ac- j companied by Richard Cram formi I American minister to Czechoslovakia, in whose car he was riding. and I Wlekham Steed, editor of the London Times, Amhnssador Harvey was on his way for a round of golf. The axlo of the machine broke, and Mr. Harvey was thrown put, landing heavily on the road. He wS"3 aide to) arise, hut was rushed back to his ho-, tel In a dazed condition. Physicians who were hurriedly sum - moned, found him suffering from shock and from severe bruises on his back. His dazed condition, after the, accident lasted more than an hour. ' j The physicians expressed the opinion ! he would be confined to his bed for J I several days and said he should not ; .attempt to attend to any official j I duties. STEED ALSO HURT Mr. Crane was uninjured, but Mr I Steed suffered from bruises and I shock. Delegates to the allied supreme i council at which Ambassador Harvey was acting as observer for his gov-j eminent, sent expressions of tytn-pathy tytn-pathy and congratulations at his escape. es-cape. Premier Lloyd George of Great 1 Britain visited tho hotel In person to make Inquiries. The physicians of both Premier Lloyd George and Premier Brland. who attended Colonel Harvey, said I shortly before noon that the ambas-J ambas-J sador's injuries were confined to severe se-vere shock and bruises. RETURNS TO NORMAL. Ambassador Harvey returned to B ' : normal condition so quickly after hlsj accident as to be able to read and ap- j ! prove the medical bulletin regarding) his mishap. He was especially an- t Lous to have it known that he was con- j fidenl he would be able to attend the j j closing sessions of tho council. The bulfeiin issued at noon by the three doctors attending Ambassador) I Harvey read j "The American ambassador was in i I an automobile accident w hich caused j the bruising Of the dorso lumbar re-j j glon Although this will confine him I to bis bed for a few days. It will en-! tail no seiious consequences." PREMIERS GOLF Premiers Lloyd George and Brland 1 With Andrew Konar Law planned to I make a threesome at golf today, while , the reparations experts continued ! their efforts foi a final agreement on j the plan of payments to be proposed; to Germany and the finance minis- ' lers worked on the partition among I liio allies of the sums already paid. j Belgium's delegates to the supreme) I council are still standing out for herj ) priority In full of 500. 000. 000 gold marks of the German payments. The, proposed incrcuse in Germany a rep- J ' arations payments for 1922 from the! 160(1,000,000 gold marks agreed on In, London to 700.000,000 BO as to provide pro-vide a certain amount of cash above (Continued on Page Two) ; .AMBASSADOR IS NOT SERIOUSLY HURT, IS WORD (Continued from Psc One) expenses of tho armies of occupation, which absorb 500.000.000 gold marks, only partially satisfies the Delglans. The golfing party furnishes the occasion oc-casion for Mr Lloyd George and M. Brlnnd to contlnuo tholr conversations conversa-tions begun yesterday concerning a Franco-British alliance for mutual defense. de-fense. A memorandum setting forth reasons as a basis for such a pact Is known to havo been drawn up. CAIUJ2S WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON". Jan. 9. (By The Associated Press.) Ambassador Harvey Har-vey cabled the stato department today to-day from Cannes that he had been only slightly Injured In an automobile accident, but said ho had requested lhat Ambassador Herrlck at Paris act temporarily as American observer at the Cannes conference in his place. HUSSIA ACCE1TS LONDON, Jan. 9. (By the Asso- I ciated Press) The Russian soviet government has accepted tho Invitation Invita-tion of thu powers to attend he conference con-ference for coping with the problem of European economics, says an Exchange Ex-change telegraph dispatch from Can- ! nes, thi3 afternoon |