GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 17928, 25 March 1922, Page 4

GERMANY

REPARATION COMMISSION’S NOTTS.

Press Association—Sy Telegraph-—Copyright.

LONDON, March 25,

The ' Daily Telegraph’s’ Berlin corns, spondent states that tho uproar over the Reparation Commission’s Note was not verv serious. It was largely stage thunder', which would have rumbled just as loudly it the Commission had proposed tho complete cancellation of Germany’s debts. A largo proportion of tho noise was duo to party tactics, in order to prove that republican Governments nro essentially bad and weak. Among tho factors which will cxercko a calming effect will be lha annual report of tho Hrjidokgeeellca-ft, the first of Berlin’s big banks, whoso last year's balance-sheet shows a net profit of 62,000,000 marks, and, niter 40, 000”, 000 marks to reservo, it will pay a dividend of 16 per cent.—A. and N.Z. Gable.

A COMPULSORY LOAN,

BERLIN, March 24,

(Received March 25, at 10 a.m.)

The Government has announced a com. pulsory loan proposal in consequence of ■the Reparations Note, MimV-torial circles regard tho whole of the taxation programme as useless.—A. and N.Z. Cable.