EUROPE'S WAR DEBTS
BRITAIN NOT TRYING TO INVOLVE AMERICA SPEECH BY SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES By T»lejraph—Press ABSooiation-Qopyrlfhl „ CReo. May 26, iI.W p.m.) New York, May %. Sir Auckland Geddes (British Ambassador), speaking at a Pilgrim Society dinner, said there was no evidence that Britain was trying to pool the war debts of Europe, and to drag the United States into the pool. He stated that while more than a thousand ships, including four battle-cruisers,- were under construction in Britain at the timo the armistice was signed, only the Hood had been completed. He denied categorically statements that Britain had commenced the construction of a pipe line from Bagdad or Mosul to Haifa, and that Britain was trying to monopolise tho world's oil 'fuel supply.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 207, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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125EUROPE'S WAR DEBTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 207, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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