HOW GERMANY SPENT THE FRENCH WAR INDEMNITY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 64, 15 March 1880, Page 4

HOW GERMANY SPENT THE FRENCH WAR INDEMNITY.

An account hag been lately published of the way in which the A indemnity paid by France to Germany on the conclusion of ihe war of 1870-71

i haa been spent. Altogether) including the war contributions imposed 1 npon Paris and the departments occupied by the German troop?, Germany ! has received from France the sum of 5,254,00Q,000f., or about £210,160,000. Of this sum £91,748,543 were in the first instance get aside fur imperial purposes, and the remainder was divided among the several Sta'63 forming the Empire, the ono North German Confederation receiving £79,114,235; Bavaria, £13,468,819 ; Wartembur^r, £4,248.304; IWeo, £3,050,593; anH Hesse, £1,436,509. Of the £91,748 548, set aside for for Imperial purpostg, £28,033,849 have been approriutftd io form a peneion funds £10,800,000 to strengths and enlt>r*e, and aid to the number of the fortifljd places of the Empire, £8,580,000 lor the purchase and construction of railways in AJsace and Lorraine, and £9,447,142 to improve the fortresses in the two annexe] provinces; £6,000, | 000 hav& be6n placed in the : imperial | War Treasury; £600,000 have been awarded in grants for eminent services; £242,740 have been spent in providing a range on which to cirry on military experiments; £300 ,000 have been alloted to German subjects expelled from France, } while smaller sums have been uppropriated to recompense railway com panies for the demage done to their rolling atock; to Improve tbe military telegraphic and postal eer vices; com* peneate German shipowners for losses sustained during the war; to extend the military topographical department; to enlarge the artillery workshops at Stresburg; to provide commemorative medals, and to construct a building for the Reichstag, — Pall Mall. Gazette.