§ Brigadier-General SURTEESasked the Prime Minister if his attention has been called to the statement that some 10,000,000 ounces of silver were recently withdrawn from the Reichsbank reserve in Berlin, and that a large portion of this sum was being shipped by the Government to New York viâ Dutch colonial banks; and whether, in view of the fact that Germany has paid little, if any, of the monetary claims of the Allies on her, it is to the interest of the latter to allow of so large a sum to pass out of their control without taking some steps to retain the money in Europe?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI have no information on this subject beyond what has appeared in the newspapers. The point raised in the second part of the, question can, I think, safely be left to the Reparation Commission, which is specially charged with the duty of considering these matters.