PENSIONS AND PITTANCES
EXPENDITURE IN GERMANY. EX-SERVICEMEN’S REWARDS. By Telegraph—Press Aesn. —Copyright. Received Dec. 10, 8.30 p.m. London, Dee, 9. A message from Berlin states that a confidential memorandum of the Finance Ministry shows the generous j>eqsjons given to officials and high officers compared with the pittances granted to. war cripples. A hundred cx-Chancellors and ex-Min-istere receive on an., , average £2OOO apiece, including Dr. Michaelis, who held the Chancellory for three months, yet nets £l5OO per annum. Herr Cuno has a pension of £lOOO, though he has also £l5OO ae manager of a prosperous steamship linft, while Dr. Luther, in addition to hie pension; receives £5OOO as director of the State railways. Fifteen hundred ex generals and a hundred ex-admirals share £2,000,000 per annum between them.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1926, Page 13
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