Washington, Aug. 30.
Further reflexion has satisfied] American official circles that there has been less writing down of the French debt to Britain than was first believed.
Some calculations place the reduction at_not more than 15 per cent,, and it is pointed out that by way" of compensation important benefits have accrued to the British treasury through the separation France's war debt from her debt to the Bank of England in the payment provisions.
With Italy, France, Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, Esthonia and Latvia all moving one way or another to settle their debts with America, the Debt Funding Comis trying to stir up Yugo-Slavia and Liberia, intues complete the list of what are regarded by America as solvent nations. The Russian and Armenian debts are regarded as. from virtually uncollectable.—Reuter's American Service.
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