ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN.
THE QUESTION OF REPAYMENT. REDUCTION OF DEBT INVOLVED. By Telesraiih.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 10, 12-35 a.m. London, "March 8. Replying to Mr. Asquith, Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Chancellor of the Exchequer), staled in the House of Commons that the Government did not intend to re-borrow outside the United Kingdom any part of the 250,000,000 dollars required to repay the British half of the Anglo-French loan of 500,000,000 dollars' from the United States, so that when the loan tvas repaid the British external debt would be reduced by over £50,000,000. « The Government would employ in this connection the av'.tila,ble resources in the United States, supplemented by a shipment oE gold. They had already begun to buy Anglo-French bonds at considerably below par.—lmperial Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1920, Page 5
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123ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN. Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1920, Page 5
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