GERMAN PRINCES AND THE PEOPLE
Compensation for , Crowns and Castles INDEMNIFICATION BILL GETS ROUGH PASSAGE [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday 2 a.m.) BERLIN. December 2. There was a heated debate in the Reichstag on motions dealing with the indemnification of ex-ruling houses of Germany'. The Communists submitted a Bill advocating appropriation, without compensation, of all the property of ex-ruhng princes. They alleged that ancestors of these ex-rulers had amassed property estimated at 21 to three milliard marks by robbery and swindling. The Socialist deputy, Herr Scheidemann, declared a million unemployed were starving, yet the nation was ex, pectcd to pay hundreds of millions to princes who wore mainly blameworthy' for the people’s misery.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2313, 4 December 1925, Page 7
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