NAZI OCCUPATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 6

NAZI OCCUPATION

« CAN FRANCE MEET THE BILL? Examining further details of the Bill ; \ 'which the Germans will present for i J costs of occupation, the French Press! ; found that it will amount to more than , < twice the entire nutiema! Budget for i ;thr fiscal year 1939, the year before I the war started, -ays a Vichy message ; : to the "Chicago Tribune. ; Discussing the <K.'<nipational bill, the j j newspaper "Lv Journal, ’’ printed m : Limoges, in the tree zone, said that the j official figure of JiHKKfOOO reichsmarks ■ daily (the mark is nnrnimdly quoted I at about 2s>. given out as the oecupa- 1 1 lion cost, means •ItXIJXH)(MX) French’ I francs daily or J 4ti.UMi.lW (too French. : francs annualy Tliis figure is more than double the . I amount * f the 1939 Budget, which was ! 1 66,0(>0.(W Lhmi francs. "Le Journal" said. • land is almost double the French Bud- i 'get for the war year of HHll which was 1 ' 79,!iOUOOO.O<X> francs. I The problem was raised by "L<-1 Juurmd" of how the country will be , ; able to find such a sum. There is; -peculation in other quarters as to v.iu-’her ’.hi- eoimtrv will )»ay the bill i bv yrm'bu; new bank-imtes and what i • that would have or. the quotation ! f- r th.c franc :tt wmld market"i.e Journals article said ’hid: L! (KKi (h.HMMK) francs, which ;• the Ger-; man-- bill for their army occup.diun ■ for iHie month rvpr«-><-m,-- more than ■ c=>Hi'c'.i-d hy dirvit taxation for: t!i<- whole yc-.o’ of 1939, Also, it said ’ •h,. bill for »ne m-mth •; ticcupmion | exi-e.-J,, bv more th.m l .tHM) (KX).(HM) | franc the e imbined Budgets for 1939 . ' -io- French Ministriv- M War ! Marine ~md Aviation, p. : ; recalled th/', c->)’.-■ tan*, wrangling; the i,,,!•■. of the Allied ociuialmn of; ■fo'co Rhiiiebmi bridgehejuis and that j tile f-eplltmiom bdl <■( L'UktfHMXHXM' ,;.,!d m..H; ■ was finaHy whittled to hvs L • han WMKHW towns in Fr.ijn‘e '.vill have arf- ; ;oy. r,.0 burdens * h thc»r y- - N.m'o- '■ Br;‘'a■.v, fi.'r be-cn fined ■ 2 000 i i ';bv Germ r authon*ivs ,;.0,0 ■;!..:>! nota ,! jwrsom tampered! tbs’ the '.m.-.c Ihu:;! huppciicil ac.sin arM ’.h<- Get mans iayyeil ~ ']:.<• of; ’’e ' ’ : V*; t v r .".-.a-.i an .qqi-al -r- the h-it*' ■ .