ALLIED GOLD.
♦- CLAIM BY FRANCE. . »V CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Jan. 5, 1.00 p.m. PARIS, Jan. 4. When the conference reopened an official French Note was issued declaring that Tinder the contract signed at Calais on June 25, 1916, France received from Britain credits to the extent of £150,000,000, as security for which France sent £50,000,000 worth, of gold to London, on the understanding that" the gold was to be returned to France m three years after the conclusion of the war upon French repayments. England in 1917, and again jn 1919, sought a release from her obligation to return the gold, but France Tefused, and consequently England was still under an obligation to return the gold.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 7
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118ALLIED GOLD. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 7
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