THE MANDATES.
AMERICA RECEIVES NOTHING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington March 5. Senator Spencer has filed a report in the Senate stating thiit the gross cost of the war to the Allies was 177,401,269,225 dollars, which will be reduced to 139.702,269,225 dollars after the credit for indemnities is deducted. The report points out 'that, while Japan spent less than one per cent, as much as the United States, she received Shantung and the northern Pacific Islands, while the United States received nothing. Senator Spencer adds:, “We might expect Britain to extend to the United States Germany’s interests in Samoa or at least divide them, but it was not so. It was expected that the islands north of the equator would be conceded to the United States, but they have been given to Japan instead.” The report • concludes: “It will bo found that the United States spent 670 million dollars more than any other nation on she
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1921, Page 5
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155THE MANDATES. Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1921, Page 5
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