GERMANY'S FINANCIAL EXHAUSTION.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1918, Page 3

GERMANY'S FINANCIAL EXHAUSTION.

| A sidelight is thrown by a well-known i Roumanian patriot on some of the I means by which Germany is able to deI for her financial exhaustion. Roinnanis, like other countries run by the Teuton. has been reduced to slavery. Its oil properties have all been seized and worked for Germany’s profit; its harvests have been carted away or mort* "atiod for years to come to tlie invader ; its revenues are charged with the maintenance of the army of occupation and also with the repayment of the paper mhoney which Germany has printed and forced upon the people. The indemnity to he paid in defiance of the proclaimed “no indemnities” policy will exceed £200,000.000. Every valuable that could he laid hands on has already ben carried away, and the statement comes from Russia that tlie gold which the Bank of Roumania had lodged for safety in Moscow has been handed over to Germany by the Bolshevik Government. It is tlie same story every- j where—robbery on a grand scale—in J Russia just as it was in Belgium. One j of these days the Allies will doubtless ! set forth the particulars of the looting of the territories through which the Teuton savages have passed. This should he done, not only witli a view to ultimate restitution, but in order to reveal to the world the nature and extent of the aids by which Germany has contrived to go on fighting.