WHACKING UP GERMANY’S FACTORIES

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1949, Page 4

WHACKING UP GERMANY’S FACTORIES

£12,500,000 WORTH DISTRIBUTED AMONG CITIES

(Rec. 5.30). LONDON, Sept. 19. An Associated Press correspondent at Berlin says: The military Government’s report for July, which was released te-day, stated that the United States zone of Germany had delivered nearly twelve and a-half millions sterling worth o.f reparations materials to eighteen of the Allied nations since the end of the war. The report says: More than half of this amount went to the countries behind th e Iron Curtain —to Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Albania. These reparations were in the form of machinery from. 183 so-called “war potential” factories in the United States zones. There are other reparations being divided among the Allies from 418 Germap. plants in the British zone, and 140 plants in the French zone. The most valuable reparations were those taken from the British zone, which includes the Ruhr Valley. Of a total amount of the reparations material worth more than two and a-quarter million sterling went to Russia. Allied nations which also shared included New Zealand, Australia, India and Pakistan.