19 APRIL 1919, Page 1

M. Clemencenu broke silence on Sunday last to assure a

Radical-Socialist deputation that the secret Council of Four had settled the questions of reparation end of the Saar Valley on the lines which the deputation had suggested to him. The Radical-Socialists had asked for the Saar coalfields, and, according to the Times, for " complete reparation for all damage done to life and property and payment of all war pensions." When Mr. Lloyd George returned to London on Monday he assured the reporters awaiting him that all was going well