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Show w PAYMENT OF WAR DEBTS. There Is to be a supreme council meeting In London today to consider the question of reparations France and Great Britain arc getting get-ting further apart on the treatment of Germany Great Britain can atford to be generous, as a liberal attitude will help the trade of England. France is driven to collect a monthly sum of considerable proportions' from Germany Ger-many each month in order to rscape bankruptcy. According to a London dispatch, the British attitude on the council meeting I was clearly revealed today when a communique from the reparations i commission gave the draft of a reso lution presented by Sir John Brad bury, British delegate to the commission, commis-sion, on August 2 He proposes to suspend all cash payments by Ger- many in foreign currency with respect i to the Versailles treaty charges, for the remainder of the calendar year, on account of the existing financial situation In Germany and the collapse of the mark exchanges; but he recommends rec-ommends that the allied governments release Germany from private claims payments on condition that $2,226,000 bo offered by Germany to this end, to be paid to the reparations commls-i commls-i sion, allowfng the latter full authority to dispose of It. ' With Great Britain and France pull- I ing apart, there is a possibility of the whole scheme of reparations worked out under the Versailles treaty being rejected and France proceeding alone to make the Germans pay or bow down to division of terrltroy One form of punishment for failing to pay ,s to make that part of Germany knovn as the Rhineland a separate republic, or buffer state, to be fostered fos-tered by France Th's would tend to break up ihe solidarity of the s'atcs which went tr form the German empire em-pire and would hurt Prussian pride. nn |