Belgian Wants From Germany
(Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21 A Belgian memorandum presented to the Foreign Ministers' deputies seeks reduction of the German and augmentation of the Belgian fleet on the Rhine, the creation of a canal between the Rhine and the Danube linking with the waterways of Western Germany and Belgium, and prolongation of the option given Belgium by the Versailles Treaty for linking the Rhine and the Schelde Rivers. The Prime Minister (Dr Spaak) speaking at Brussels today, said the least reparations from Germany which would satisfy Belgium were the following:—
Delivery of the following goods annually for 40 years: 6.600,000 metric tons of coal, 750.000.000 kilowatts of electrical power, 1.000.000 tons of lignite, 300,000 tons of industrial salt. 80,000 tons of common salt, 500.000 cubic metres of wood, and about 100,000 tons of chemicals. Belgium wanted Germany organised as a federation of states, with the central power limited to economic problems. Belgium was not satisfied with .the procedure of the London talks on Germany. She wanted to participate.
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Northern Advocate, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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