CLAIMS OF EX-KAISER.
COMMENCEMENT OF PAYMENT CHEQUE FOR £250,000. A. and'Ni. ' BERLIN. Oct. 2G. This ireek-a-cheque for £250.000 is to be paid to-the ex-Kaiser as the first instalment in'respect to his property claims. At the same time six castles ant] 250 thousand acres of land will be granted as compensation. The completion of the transaction has enabled the German nation for the first time to realise the amazing nature of the bargain. As Prussia has a Budget deficit the payments to the Hohenzollerus will mean extra taxation. Herr Bode, the curator of the national museum, is insistent in his demands that before the castles aro finally handed over " art experts should examine the contents. Otherwise, he says., there is an acute danger that very valuable national possessions will'W lost to Germany. Seventy truck loads of pictures, tapestries, porcelain.and antiques have already gone to Doorn.~ Among art objects which are missing are three dozen pictures painted by J. B. Pater. These are missing from the Potsdam Palace.' Some priceless tapestries are also missing from another palace in Berlin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 10
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177CLAIMS OF EX-KAISER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 10
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