RUHR OCCUPATION
FRANCE PREPARES A BALANCE SHEET. RECEIPTS EXCEED EXPENDITURE. Received May IS, 10.30 p.m. PARIS, May 18. M. Poincare issued a statement of I the foreign affairs and finance commissions, showing that the cost of the occupation of the Ruhr to May 1 totalled 63,650,000 francs. Receipts irom customs, export licenses, forests and fines amounted to thirty-six milHon francs. Coal and coke seized in the same period are estimated to be north 36,680,000 francs. The position, therefore, is satisfactory, as The receipts exceeded the expenditure, and coal and coke yields show continued increase.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 5
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94RUHR OCCUPATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 5
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