Paris, Jan, 17.
'M. Herriot has instructed the! French Ambassador at Moscow to' protest {o the Soviet Government. against the recent speech of M. Rykoff, when he described the! French loans to. Russia as "imverialistic, and denied the legal obligation' to repay them.—-Reuter.
11, 1023, stated that the British debt to America was 14,200,000,000 gold marks and if it be calculated that the Dawes annuities will bring 87,000,000,000 gold marks, Britain' would receive, according to the percentages established at the Spa conference, 22 per cent. oF about 8,000,000,000 gold marks. Therefore, as Britain proposes to claim from her debtors only @ sum. necessary to pay her creditor France would only have to pay the difference, which apparently will not exceed two or three milliard gold marks.
Jan. 17.
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