PRISON FOR DEFAULTERS

Shannon News, 6 March 1923, Page 4

PRISON FOR DEFAULTERS

■RAIL AND RIVER TRANSPORT

REORGANISED. HIGH HOPES OF SUCCESS. (Received MondajX 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Dusseldorf correspondent states that the French have made all administrative arrange ments for collecting - the lyriy per cent, coal tax. A mixed Arbitration Commission will calculate the tax in marks fortnightly, which will afterwards be valued in dollars on the 15th of each month. The tax must be paid to .tlie bank, at least thirty per cent, being in American, English, or other approved currencies. If the mine-owners do not pay within fifteen days, coal equivalent to the tax plus fifty per cent., will be seized ten days later, or the private property of the defaulter will be seized. If the tax is still unpaid within a month the defaulter will be kept in prison until it s paid.

The “Sunday Times” Paris correspondent refers to the possibility of the occupation of Frankfurt. A semiofficial note states that rail and river transport is being satisfactorily organised.