4 MAY 1929, page 47

Aims Of The Conference.

In some quarters the point has been made. that the Reparations Conference was a little premature in. the sense of it being difficult, so long as Germany was meeting her......

The Dawes Plan.

For some few years German Reparations have been worked under what is known as the DavieS Nan. Started a few years ago with Reparations on an ascending scale, that plan provided......

Tiie Deadlock.

Until the full Reports have been issued of the Repar• ations agreement, it is impossible, of course, to know precisely what has happened at Paris; and in the • City there are......

Finance Public - ..& Private

Rparations Crisis THERE are two main factors tending at the present time to restrict activity on the Stock. Exchange and also more or less to obscure the outlook. One of these......

Borrowing To - Pay.

The explanation of this phenomenon in one respect is Simple, though, as will be seen, it has been attended with a new Complication. Germany was able to meet these remittances......

Large Payments Effected.

In view of the fact that at the commencement of the operation of the Dawes Plan the trade balance was against . Germany, it was feared that these powers of the Transfer......

The " Exchange " Question.

A further important feature of the Dawes Scheme was the plan. for preventing, as far as possible, the German Reparation payments breaking the German exchange. A moment's thought......

Hopes Of Agreement.

- For some weeks previous to this deadlock being reached in the Reparations . Conference, Germany had begun to feel a strain from the stringency in New York, leading to less......