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Correspondents who had come to hear the doom of Thoiry, went away declaring that Premier Poincare would attempt to secure passage for the Franco-U. S. debt pact when the French Chamber reas- sembles next month but would seek to make the ratification conditional on a transfer safeguard clause being conceded...
...that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last week, expressed determination to "safeguard the peace of Bulgaria's frontiers...
...immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials negligent in permitting habitation near the arsenal? Will new storage plants be situated at Dover? Will serious attempt be made to safeguard them against lightning? Will the 21 other arsenals along the U. S. seacoasts and borders be modernized...
...France will pay in the current financial year about $20,000,000, with gradually increasing payments until the 60th year, when the full previously arranged $62,500,000 will be reached. M. Caillaux's cold financial heart pulsated with gratitude at Chancellor Churchill's concession of a "safeguard clause" (protection of French interests in the event Germany should default in her reparations payments...
That France should make payments beginning at $30,000,000 each for the first two years and advancing gradually to $125,000,000 in the 17th year, and continuing at that level to the end of the usual 62-year period for paying War debts. No "safeguard"; clause (exempting France from payments in case Germany fails in reparations payments), such as was demanded by Caillaux, was mentioned. The total payments in 62 years are to amount to $6,847,000,000 in principal and interest. The interest is calculated as none for five years, 1% for the next ten years...