Jan, 12.
It is learned that the details of the agreement reached by the Conference of Allied Finance Ministers as published from a French source are mainly accurate with regard to broad principles, but that any figures of amounts payable to the different Powers are mere guesses Tnaemuch ax important factors such. jas the total German deliveries kind during the wecupation ruhr are subject to evaluation.
The Reparations Commission has agreed that Belgium shall receive her full eight per cent. of the reparations in the first Dawes year, and possibly the second if necess-jary in order to extinguish her priority; otherwise Belgium will receive during the second year four jand a half per cent. plus the re-Iuum of the 2,000,000,000 gold larks priority conceded her, which has not yet been paid.
One hundred and sixty million old marks will be debited to the Dawes annuities for the costs of the French and Belgian armies of occupation, This will defray the jevet of the difference between the ntenanee of troops in Germany Jand at home.
The American Claim As regards the agreement _between the British and American delegates, army costs will be spread over 20 years from the Wadsworth agreement, namely, May, 1923, while the' payment of reparations ill be extended over the whole riod of the Daves annuities in the form of a fixed percentage beginning from the extinction of Belgian priority. The British did not accept the American figu for American reparation Jcompromise agreement provides for jan annual percentage, the capital value of which will be less than the American figure.
America will receive no interest except on arrears between May, 1925, and the commencement of Payments to Aieriea under the Dawes pla The British attach the greatest importance to this agreement, which brings America officially into the reparation pool.
According tu two newspapers the American percentage of Germany's annal payments under the Dawes scheme will be 24 per cent. effective on the extinction of Belgian priority. ttaly Overpaid It ix announced here that Italy, who received in Germany especially
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