WAR DEBTS
AUSTRALIA’S OBLIGATIONS
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
LONDON, March 14.
On behalf of -Australia, Sir Joseph Cook paid the British Government £4,750.000 on account of war expenditure, including principal and intciffst. Sir Joseph Cook, commenting on the payment, said; “It appears to me that wc are. with the exception of the sister Dominions, the one debtor nation of all the Allies which is meeting promutly its ful!' war obligations, and wo are glad to be able to do it."— A. and N.Z. Cable.
FRANCE AND UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK, March 14.
The ‘New York Times’s’ Paris correspondent interviewed M. Poincare (Prime Minister), who declared that the position of France as regards her war debts to the United States “is simple. What Franco owes sho has no wish or intention to repudiate. She will pay when she can. If at any future time the United States should renounce her right to these payments, France would acknowledge such a decision with gratitude, hut she is not basing her policv on auv such eventuality. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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175WAR DEBTS Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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