INDEMNITIES.
The Huns have been pleading for the reduction of the sum at which their indemnity has been fixed provisionally. Bismarck claimed to be letting the French down lightly with a payment of £i200,00(),000 because he first asked them for £240,000, and because, as he assured tliem, his financial experts were of opinion that he could have extracted £000,000,000. France after Waterloo was asked only for £28,000,000; and that is said to have been more than Napoleon extorted during the whole of lii.s predatory campaigns. After the Crimean war no indemnity was taken; and the belief came to prevail that indemnities had disappeared for ever from European warfare, lint that was a mistake. After ISGO the Prussians bled the South German States to the tune of £B,800,000; and after the Ruaso-Turkisli war the Russians demanded £150,000,000, though they were persuaded, at the Conference of Berlin, to reduce the demand to £33,000,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 10 (Supplement)
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151INDEMNITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 10 (Supplement)
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