BRITAIN’S DEBT TO AMERICA.
TOTAL OF £856,000,000. ARRANGING PAYMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Asap —Copyright Received July 6, 1.20 a.m. ’London, July 4. In the House of Commons Mr. Hilton Young stated that the British debt to America was approximately £856,000,000. Accrued interest unpaid thereon totalled approximately 408,000,000 dollars. The only definite arrangement for the reduction of the debt at present was for the repayment of 122,000,000 dollars borrowed for the purchase of silver dollars, under which a further 30,500,000 dollars would be repaid in April and May next.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1921, Page 5
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87BRITAIN’S DEBT TO AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1921, Page 5
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