THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR INDEMNITY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1988, 14 May 1906, Page 7

THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR INDEMNITY.

When the envoys of M. do Rothschild paid 1 lie war contributions of Paris at, the close of the siege, an alleged counterfeit 25 thaler hill slipped in among the 200,000,000 francs that were brought to Versailles. Tho quick e.yc of the Prussian official at once detected it, and the bill was j thrown out. Rothschild’s people insisted that it was genuine and must j be accepted, otherwise they would re- | turn to Paris with all their rolls of | notes and sacks of coin, j Prince Bismark who was present | said ! ’Herr Director, accept the bill. 1 j will myself make up the deficit. A j great war about nothing more lan- , gible than a castle in Spain has just I been concluded between two great j Powers >; and 1 can’t afford just on i the heel of it to turn round and dc- ! Clare war on the house of Rothsj child, the sixth great European ! power, on account of a false 25 I thaler note.” ' “'Your Excellency is right,” returned one of Rothschild’s agents, | with a smile, “particularly as the I noted whether good or bad, was made in Prussia.”