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Show ! ALLIES PROPOSE LUMP1EMI PLAN OF ANGLO-FRENCH CO' MISSION MAKES PAY BY GER MANY DEBT GUARANTEE. The Debt to United States Not ep braced In New Plan Because of Non-Participation In the Conferences. Hythe, England. The Anglo-Pr0Ci commission which has succeeded ? big four in the management of u allies' dealings with Germany deu-mined deu-mined at Sunday's session in the soons villa here upon the pi-incipi. for the settlement of both the Genii, indemnity and inter-allied debts; The principles are that the financ experts of the two governments she recommend a lump sum for the i demnity and that the payment of u interallied debts shall proceed purai! with Germany's payments. This arrangement is a substitute f. Premier Millerand's proposal, uml which most stress was laid upon t immediate payment of a large sum France. The French delegation, hoi ever, appeared satisfied with the r suits of their mission. The debt to the United States is n embraced in the new plan, and tl government's spokesman In timati that this would not be possible wit out the participation by the Unid States in tlie conferences. Recogr tion of Belgium's priority claims upi Germany still stands. The propn tional allotment of the German i demnity, made eight months ago, 1 which France gets 55 per cent at Great Britain 25 per cent, stands, a cording to the agreement. The 'creditors of the allies are di tinct gainers by the new plan, beeait it virtually makes German paymen toward the indemnity guarantees f the interallied debts. The French co sider themselves gainers, on the oi hand, because it now becomes doub to Great Britain's interest to press'Ge many for reparation, while Great Ei tain secures definite assurances f repayment of her loans to France. |