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Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)

WAR AND INDEMNITIES. By the indemnity of £200,000,000 paid by )'ranee after the Franco Gorman war in 1870, and the following years, Gormany made a profit of £S.->,000,000 over and above the German expenses of the war, which were £115,000,000. The complete sum was paid by France by September, 1873. The total amount, including interest on instalments, was £212,645,000. The Germans themselves took up a large part of the loan raised by the French Government to pav the sura. The Germans devoted £40,000,000 to their pension fund, and seem to have been quite comfortable on the proceeds, though the rumor spread about that the indemnity did more harm than good. A Home paper remarks that the fact that France paid so large a sum in three years suggests that Germany, in a generation, could manage £3,000,000,000 without undue disturbance of the world's finance, and greatly to the benefit ®f )nen p«ae«ful communities.