WAR DEBTS TO BRITAIN.
ATTITUDE OF ALLIES.
tlleuter’s Telegram.*
LONDON, Aug. 10.
M. Caillaux, addressing the AngloAmerican pressmen, said: “I make Britain and America a gentleman’s offer for the settlement of debts,” adding he 'would undertake to pay to the limit of France’s capacity, but he could not assumo the responsibility of committing France to payments in excess of her capacity. M. Cuilhuix stated that Ihe Moroccan war hitherto had cost 200,000,000 francs.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10
With the assurance from Ambassador Dccartier that Belgium will honor her just obligations and with a promise by Secretary Mellon that Belgium will be asked to pay only within iicr capacity, the American-Belgian Debt Commission opened negotiations for the refunding by Belgium of .480,000,000 dollars war debt to the'United States.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 7
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