The Archive · 1924

What Germany Should, Pay

Paris, Apr

'The report' of the two Committees "of Experts on roparations will be published to-morrow. It is a hugo document of 60 pages. According to a forecast, it proposes- that Germany" should immediately pay 16,000,000,000 gold marks and also make suowal payments between a minimum of 1,400,000,000 old marks and maximum of %,000,000,000 old marks. Alternatively, she should] ay 1,000,600,000 gold" marks in the first year, 1,200,000,000 old marks ini the' second and third! Yours, 1,730,000,000 gold marks in the fourth and 2,460,000,000 gold marks in the fifth year and onwards, After the sixth your the Reparations—Commission would payments, calculated on the basis of Germany's—prosperity, amounting to several hundred million gold marks German Railways, 'The "German railways should be handed over for 80 years to an international company with em pital of 26,060,000,000 gold marks, of which the Reparations Commission should hold' 11,000,- 060,0C0 vold marks 6 per cent. ing an annual sidd of 660,000,000 gold "marks after the fourth' year.

Without entering into the question of military occupation of the Ruhr, the Commnitters of Experts express the opinion that many's economic. restoration be Insting only if her economic unity is fully re-established and suggest, that a permanent committee' of five "ex: ports, with n President nominate ed by the Reparations Commis: sion, should regulate the move-mani of German capital and administer the capital left tom porarily to Cermany.—Reutar.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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