THE COST OF THE WAR
GERMANY’S MILLSTONE. New York, March T. The Washington correspondent of (he New York Times says 1 hat Mr Newton D. Baker, Secretary for War, stated that the war cost of all the belligerents totalled £39,000,000,000, not including damage by devastation. * London, March 4. The Morning- Post’s correspondent at Paris learns that it is proposed to demand from Germany six hundred million sterling yearly for lifty years. Il is estimated (hat (his will leave Germany with 280 millions yearly for her internal needs. Paris, March 3„ The Reparation Committee estimates that the Central Powers must pay to the Allies £24,000,000,000, the payment being extended over a period of thirty years, and including one thousand millions immediately in gold, foreign securities, merchandise, and ships.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1948, 6 March 1919, Page 3
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