"A GENTLEMAN'S OFFER"
FRANCE AND HER WAR DEBTS. PAYMENTS TO CAPACITY LIMIT. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, August 10. M. Caillaux, addressing AngloAmerican pressmen, said: " I make Britain and America a gentlemen's offer for the settlement of debts," adding that he would undertake to pay to the limit of France's capacity. He could not assume responsibility for committing France to payments in excess of her capacity. M. Caillaux stated that the Moroccan war so far had cost 200,000,000 francs.
REFUNDING THE BELGIAN LOAN. REPAYMENT TO UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, August 10. With an assurance from the Ambassador, Baron do Cartier, that Belgium will honour her just obligations, and with a promise by the Secretary of State, Mr Mellon, that Belgium will be asked to pay only within her capacity, the American-Belgium Debt Commission opened negotiations for the refunding of the Belgian 480,000,000dollar war debt to the United States.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10474, 13 August 1925, Page 2
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