Twenty-seven million dollars will be paid before the end of this month by the United States Treasury to a number of German firms, including the Norddeutscher Lloyd and the Hamburg American Line, the amount being the second instalment on the refunds of the proceeds from the sale of German property sequestrated during the war. Originally it had been planned to pay out only $11,000,000, the difference representing the sums due to Amer-jean citizens in indemnifica: ion of their war claims, but these payments will be held over until the end of the Hoover Year.
French objections against these payments to German firms have been dropped, it being explained that the French Government had never protested against the payments as such, but only against th proposed reductions, which it head, were not justified under the Hoover Plan,—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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