SHALL WE GET AN INDEMNITY.
“ HIGHLY IMPROBABLE” SAYS LORD SUMNER. “I do not think ther e is the slightest prospect of the income tax coming down appreciably at the end of the Avar,’ ’ said Lord Sumner, speaking at the National Economy Ehibition. “It Avill probably be Avanted to pay the interest on our Avar debt, “ Anybody avlio talks about indemnities does not realise that Belgium, the north of France, and Serbia Avill be the first claimants, and Avhen they have claimed all they need they will have had about all there is. ‘'l think it highly improbable that the Germans Avill come out of the Avar with any money. “ The signature of peace will be the beginning of a nerv Avar, and the enemy, goaded by hunger and hate, Avill not be a competitor that we can fight Avith ouo hand behind our back. Thrift is not a teraponary war measure, but a means of securing our national life in the future.”
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 20 October 1916, Page 3
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162SHALL WE GET AN INDEMNITY. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 20 October 1916, Page 3
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