Aug. 29.
Two months of altercation over what Germany ought to pay have brought the Allies back very much to the point where they began. The London conference failed, the visit of Sir John Bradbury and M. Mauclere to Berlin, apparently the outcome of some hazy and forlorn hope that Germany might be so kind as to suggest a solution where it is only her interest to promote confusion, has also failed, the French not unnatural. ly preferring a specified amount of gold to an indefinite amount of wood and coal. The only difference in the general situation
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