BULGARS' EMPTY COFFERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 9

BULGARS' EMPTY COFFERS

£6 A YEAR WAR PENSIONS TACTS FOR CREDITOR POWERS THE HAGUE, Jan. 10. Rumania's hostility to Hungary stands in the way of a satisfactory settlement of the question of Austrian reparations. To-day the Austrian Chancellor, ITerr JSchober, had to report to the Commission for Non-German Reparations that his negotiations with the representatives of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Jugo-Slavia, who have special claims against Austria, had not been successful. The negotiations have failed because Rumania is afraid that if mercy i« shown to Austria she will be forced to show mercy to Hungary when the question of that country's reparations conies before the commission. Bather than set aside her claims against Hungary, which has been deprived of rich provinces for her benefit, Rumania has egged on her friends in the Little Entente to follow her example and to attempt to extract money from Austria. The commission suggested that there should be further conversations, and then turned to consider how much money could be extracted from the peasants of Bulgaria. M. Bouroff, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, said: "In my country the King gets £6OOO a year, the Chief Justice. £5 a. week, and we are so poor that the 07,000 men injured in the war get pensions of only £6 a year each and war orphans 3d a day."