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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

PUBLIC attention during the past week has been focused on the Conference, first of the Prime Ministers and then of the experts, called to consider German reparations, German finance, and .Allied debts. M. Poincare's proposals, summarized below, were submitted to the financial experts, who decided by a majority that they were impracticable. Since, however, the French Prime Minister was not prepared to withdraw his proposals, the position thus created must be considered to be very grave.

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