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April 28, 1929

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GENEVA DROPS RESERVES FROM LIMITATION AGENDA; POWERS BACK OUR STAND; GERMANS ASK COMPROMISE But Bernstorff Plan to Apply 'Equivalent Values' Fails. NO CONCESSIONS OFFERED Silence of France and Other Conscript Nations Proves Disappointing to Meeting. CHAMBERLAIN BACKS GIBSON Says He Accepts Both Army and Navy Proposals--German Press Is Bitter. Looked on as Compromise. Conscript Powers Silent. DROPS RESERVES FROM AGENDA No Answer From French. Bernstorff Fights Exclusion. Asks French What They'll Do. Cushendun Supports Him.

By Clarence K. Streit. Wireless To the New York Times

Reserves dropped from agenda; Germans ask compromise; silence of Count Massigli proves disappointing; Chamberlain backs Gibson; Litvinoff and Cushendun appear to agree on difficulty of settling issues about reserves

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1929Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (born 1879)[†]

Hendrik van Heuckelum, nicknamed Henk, was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward for HBS-Craeyenhout and Royal LĂ©opold Club, and who represented Belgium at the 1900 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the football tournament.