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Show FREKCH mm AS BRITISH mm UPON REDUCTION OF MN REPARATION PAYMENT LONDQN, Aug 12. (By The As- tion of which shall be devoted to the BOClated Press.) The French delega- payment of reparations." lion to tho conference on German af- M. Poincare had doubts regarding lh Uritlsh government proposes and insists upon a reduction of the German Ger-man reparations payments to about one-third the amounts fixed by the London s. hedul-. of paym.-nts of May, 1921 that Is, cancel altogether tho annual cash payment ( 2. 000, 000. 000 gold marks, and to leav,e only tho 26 per cent assessment on German exports ex-ports The text of Premier Lloyd George's proposals which forms part of the tenth point of the British iu utoran-dum utoran-dum reads. "Subject to art '.U.nce by the German Ger-man government ol these guarantees. It will be for the reparations committee com-mittee to grant a moratlum in respect re-spect to all cash payments remaining remain-ing due from Qermany up to the 3 1st of December. '2- and. further, tne commission sluill :'.s soon ;is possible jflx the annual payments in cash in respect re-spect to all peace treaty charges for the succeeding period at such an amxunt not exceeding 26 per c-nl ot the value of Gorman exports ;is they may find to be proper with a view to the early flotation of a loun by t:i-German t:i-German gove.rnment. the major por- - iv t'ldl'U Oil HUB t article, and it was one of the points referred by the premiers to the committee com-mittee of experts. At mis afternoon's sitting of the experts' committee, M. do Lasteyrie, the French i inane,, minister, min-ister, obtained explanations from the British members that it was designed to reduce the total cash m.yments to a sum amounting to per cent ot ithe value of German exports, but i leaving the possibility still of payments pay-ments in kind. M. dc Lasteyrie is understood un-derstood to have informed the coin-' jmittee there was not the least chance j Of the French government accepting' such an idea, or seriously considering I it, I I'onseijuntly. the negotiations be j tween the Pritish and French arc at I a standstill. The members of tho j French delegation were greatly surprised sur-prised that .Mr. Lloyd George should ' send word to M. Poincare that he was I leaving London over y andav , thus causing the loss ot one jay wnen only t two days remain be tore the expiration ol the date on which the .next German Ger-man payment is due under th. pur- j tial moratorium now in operation. POiNCAKE OAS DOl B rs. PARIS. Auc. 1. (liv The Asso-elated Asso-elated Press.) A note from the Ger- man government protesting against the expulsion of Gen. sans from Al-! sace-Lorralne was delivered to tho French government late today, The note also protests against the French attitudi with regard to coin-pensatlon coin-pensatlon payments, saying it Is contrary con-trary to the spirit and letter of the r.-iaillea treaty and the subsequent agreements. BTRABSBOURQ, Aug 11. (By The Assoi iated Press ) Expulsion from Alsace-Lorraine of 100 t;.-rir..irs in cluding the wive.s and children of married men, begun today in comfyi-ance comfyi-ance with the order issued yesterday : bv the commissary general. The married men were each allowed to take bC pounds of baggage and 1,-000 1,-000 marks and single men wero allowed al-lowed one-half of this sum. The list of BOO Germans, who were serv.l with expulsion notle. s yesterday yester-day comprises persons known to have been outspoken In th. ir anti-French attitude, agitators and Other undesirables, undesir-ables, it was announced today. They have been permitted to dispose of their property or transfer it to other persons. Simultaneously the sequestration of the a. - ..iints of Germans In AhMU Lorraine ba'iks went Into effect to- .' day. ' |