Reparations Coal

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 26, 27 June 1923, Page 13

Reparations Coal

In January, 1522, the Coimnlssfon Tor Reparations claimed 22 million i.ons ' ol! coal-—Germany handed over |]G nvilitm ions, worth. 179 mill'on i sold murks, though in view of the reduced coal balance, she had none ■ for export. Frane G and her associates claimed more th£.n one third of {ail the coke taken out in the Ruhr J iislrScl. ■ Germany -was forced 1o buy Loroign coal--mostly English, v.tx-1 tli-{5 had to be paM for with foreign r-3 Jls of exchange a- a high standard, oxcept the quantities that came from what 's now Polish Uppsr Hilesirt. In the last year, we imported 22 to 23 million tons, tho vailways ■ ■especially on English, coal. Meanwhile, our coal was amassed hi j France in such quantities tliar. it j cOTiid not be ccnsunied in that couaI try. The coal of the Saar mines that Germany was forced to hand over to France, was partly repurchase-/,! by German nianuTacturers. j Thus tlv's coal entered into "a \ dumping competition" with the EngI lish coal. OK COURSE, THESE TRANSACjTIONS RESULTED IN IMMENSE I PRIVATE PROFITS.—Theodor Wolff, iOdit'.vr-iii-'chief '"Berliner Tiageblatt , .," In "World's Work," March, 1923.