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Show GEDDES ADJUSTING BRITISH WAR DEBT LONDON, Feb. 4. Negotiations relative to an adjustment of Great Britain's debt to the Vnlted State? ar in the hands of Sir Auckland Gedde3, British ambassador in Washington and the proposed trip to America of Lord Chalmers, permanent secretary of the treasury, was merely to facilitate facili-tate the conversations. This was tho explanation given hero Yesterday for tho postponement of Lord Chalmers1 visit lo the United States during thc absence of Ambassador Geddes "Under the Liberty loan enactments." enact-ments." Tho Associated Press was told, "the American treasury was em-poweroel em-poweroel to float loans and to make advances to the allies. The fact that negotiations have been going on apparently was thc basis of reports that lxrel Chalmers would go to America and propose the con-irerslon con-irerslon ol the British debt to the 1'nltcd S: ites into five per cent bonds maturing In 1938 and 1947. The delegation dele-gation of Lord Chalmers to go to America, however, may be taken as an indication of tho British desire to wind up affairs." |