GERMAN WAR TREASURE.
MUST BE CONSERVED. 'BY TELEGRAPH- —PRESS '.ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT; ' (Rec; March 18, 9.29 p.m;). Berlin, March 18. Tho German Government has refused to use 120,000,000 marks of war treasure (which is kept in the Julius Tower in tho fortified ■ town of ,Spandau, Prussia, 8J . miles' from Berlin) for .the Empire's current necessities. - The' Government insists that the imonoy must bo kept so as to bo available in tilno of war.-
Spandau is a town arid first-class fortress of Prussia, at,the confluence of tho Havel and the Spree, about eight miles by rail west by north of Berlin. The principal dcfenco of the capital on (hat side, it has very strong fortifications. In tho ."Julius Tower" of : tlio citadel is preserved 111 gold tho Imperial , War Fund of JC,000,000 (mainly demed from the French War indemnity) that the Government, since 1871, ; keens in reserve for a great..war. Spandau is the seat of an arsenal, largo Government cannon foundries, : Hid factories for making gunpowder and other munitions of war. - . The population in 1900 ma 65,030, including a garrißOii of nearly' 4000 men. .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 7
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