A Total of 8/411,339,000 Gold Marks in Cash and Kind: The Manner of Distributior 170,913,000 Paid Last Year The customary half-yearly statement recently issued by the Reparations Commission, showing the total amount of payments made by Germany on Reparations account since the Armistice, is chiefly interesting because it furnishes bulk figures that, by comparing them with those issued a year ago, enable tone to arrive at the amount that has been received by France and Belgium since the German Government, after the occupation of the Ruhr, refused to continue Reparations payments to those coun-'The statement shows that balance (including the repayment of 1,373,406,000 gold marks in respect of the cost of the army. of occupation) having been disponed of in other directions, How the Allies Have Shared.
The amounts distributed to the various Allied Powers during 1923, if the figures given a year ago be subtracted from those now issued, will be seen: to be as follo to December 31 last Germany had made total payments amounting to 411,339,000 gold marks in cash (1,903,544,000 gold marks), shipping, cables, -State property, and payments in kind, etc. Of this total, however, 2,719,093,000 gold marks remain undistributed or in suspense, and out of the balance of 692,246,000 gold marks that has' been dis tributed among the Allies, 2,613, 611,000 gold marks hax been utilized for the repayment of the cost of the armies of occupat and the control commissioner (without taking into account the 1,071,805,000 gold marks which is the estimated cost of the United States army of occupation), in repaying the advances made' to Germany for purchase of coal after the Armistice and other charges distinct from Reparations.
Out of the amount which has actually been buted among the (Allin, France has received 1,804,192,000 gold marks (143,095,- (000 gold marks in cash, 1,358,155,- 000 "gold marks in kind, and 202,042,000 gold marks in ceded Property). Out of this total, however, the amount actually applied able' to Reparation payments down, the end of 1923 was only 189,777,000." gold marks, the 507,989,000
The amount actually paid bj Germany during the year 470,913,000 gold. marks (of which 462,480,000 "gold marks was Kind and the rest in cash). The difference between this total and the total distributed was due to the fact that 37,076,000 gold marks was taken from the accounts previously in suspense. As the cost of the French army of occupation in the Rhineland (excluske of the Ruhr) in 1923 amounted to 112,49 000 gold marks, it follows that France during 1928 received from Germany 99,106,600 gold marks less than her' expenditure on her army of occupation. The same figures also show that, whereas in the amount received by France down to the end of 1922 there was a balance of 293,083,000 gold marks available for passing to her reparation account, this had been 'Teduced* at the end' of 1928 to.
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