SIX BILLION CLAIM
Great-Great-Grandfather’s Debt CASE AGAINST MAHARAJAH By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. CALCUTTA, Feb. 26. An amazing claim for six billion sterling has been made against the Maharajah of Rewa, one of the ruling princes of Central India, by Lala Ganga Prasad Singh, a landowner in the State. The claim is based on the allegation that about 150 years ago Maharaja Ajay Singh, the great-great-grandfath-er of the present Maharaja, borrowed £10,750 from the claimant’s great-great-grandfather, for which he executed a bond, but the money was never repaid and the debt and interest have reached the present enormous sum. The claimant bases the suit under the Rewa State laws, nhero the time limitation does not apply iu eases for the recovery of arrears from State subjects. The claimant has asked the State Government to permit him to institute a civil suit against the Maharaja in the State Courts for recovery of the money. A billion is reckoned differently by different countries. In France and the United States a thousand millions (1,000.000.000) is considered a billim. I but. Britain considers a million million i (1,000,ODD,ODD,000) to be a billion.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 27 February 1935, Page 9
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186SIX BILLION CLAIM Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 27 February 1935, Page 9
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