6 SEPTEMBER 1924, Page 2

Last Saturday the London Pact giving effect to the Dawes

scheme was formally signed. The German repre- sentatives would have signed even if the Reichstag had not voted in favour of the Pact, but in the Reichstag debate on Friday, August 29th, a large proportion of the Nationalists, after all, ate their own words and voted with the Government. The division took place on the Railway Law, and this vote decided the fate of all the rest of the Dawes scheme. Forty-eight Nationalists supported the Government and fifty-four voted with the minority.