"The total amount of money which this country lent to France in order that the Great War might be pro-secured is in the neighbourhood of 600. million pounds," says. the "Manchester Guardi "Gt is a painfully large sam, and from the indignation which' the thought of it arouses. among Frenchmen it might "almost be supposed that they were the creditors and we the debtors who had no suggestions to offer about payment. Perhaps this indignation will be a little eased by the curious. Giacovery, just announced by the Bho de Paris," that a great deal of that debt is not really owing. at all.
"If France were to have what is popularly described on this side of the Channel as 'a fair doy she ought, now told, to be able to claim from. England' a sum of '9,000,000,000, which represents, according to the writer the "Echo de Paris" the amount of damage done to French belongings during the war by British troops and guns. It may be wondered Whether the writer, in arriving at this figure, has made any allowance for the damage that was paid for as it occurred, The inhabitants of the Pas Calais and the Somme a shrewd eye for damage. 'The British Army,' it has been said by one writing with knowledge on the: Glaims Commission of G.1.Q, paid for everything, even to an orchard: tree that an army mule had nibbled at! Towards the end of the war it even paid the octroi duties on food: entering French towns for the use of British troops.
"No one, again, can estimate accurately the vast amount of their pay which the British troops dis bursed during four and a half years to French traders. In all. these matters the British Expeditionary Force was a proposition which paid its way. On the subject of damage done by gunfire it seems almost Indelieate fo comment, It ie just Hire too like. presenting a bill to the fire brigade for damages. done the course of saving the bulk of the claimant's household; a reverent. and sympathetic hush in the presence of the distraught appears the more seemly and even the more helpful attitude, But it is an me teresting example of what happens becomes an aspect of Arausio last, Donzelon, 18th; Sky-Canusa,' 20th; and So ended rather tamely a Derby which has. aroused more interest and created more discussion than any other of recent years. No one knew what would win, and every-tone believed that quite a number of the runners would finish in a line, They did finish in a Tine, but it vwas'a line down and not across the courge, Many equine reputations wore shattered and only one was made. Diophon, as T had always believed, does not stay; and Tom Pinch fs at the moment. another Leighton—always going to win with and invariably failing.
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