And the domes of the Hotel Astoria?

It was yesterday, January 31; and no upholsterer appeared, rue de Presbourg, in front of the steps of the Hotel Astoria. Through the windows of the ground floor, decorated with sticky paper, one saw the same sleepy green cardboards and the same maps of Europe reworked. The Reparations Commission did not seem in such a hurry to leave as had been said...
We know that the said Commission, whose work has been seriously simplified by the implementation of the Dawes Plan, must proceed to a severe reduction of these services. The delegates will no longer be obliged from now on to stay in Paris between sessions, the assistant delegates having to form a permanent Committee for the dispatch of current affairs.
The rumor had therefore spread that a decision would be made before the end of January, concerning the evacuation of the Astoria hotel for one million five hundred thousand francs in rent per year....
No confirmation has been given. The skeletal services of the Commission will therefore continue, for some time yet, and for the same price, to occupy the sumptuous hotel where William II had, it is said, had an apartment prepared for himself in 1914. Too bad for the savings. Too bad also for the prospect of the Star.
Because there still remains the problem of the domes, those famous domes surmounted by the German imperial crown, which the prefecture, as early as 1907, demanded be lowered.
We know that the former owner Jellineck was condemned by all the courts, including the Council of State. The domes must disappear as soon as the Reparations Commission has left the hotel. But we do not yet see the end of this story...