§ Mr. HANNONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what amount has been paid into the British Exchequer since 1st April, 1922, up to the latest date for which the figures are available on account of Reparations and on account of the Army of Occupation?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe answer is, nothing for Reparations, and about £5 million in respect of the cost in the past and current years of the Army of Occupation?
§ Mr. HANNONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total of Reparations paid by Germany since the Armistice up to the latest date for which figures are available, specifying separately the amount paid in German currency, in other currencies, and in kind, and the value of State and other properties transferred in ceded territories?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe figures are as follow:
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Payments and Deliveries Credited to Germany from 11th November, 1918, to 30th September, 1922. — Millions gold marks. Millions gold marks. 1. Gold and Foreign Currencies. (a) Direct Payments (including Treasury Bills) … — 1,544 (b) Receipts from other sources on German account (exclusive of Cash Sales shown in Item II below):— 1. Payment by Denmark re Schleswig-Holstein Cession … 65 2. Destroyed war material sold … 45 3. Sundry Items … 4 114 1,658 II. Deliveries in Kind. (Provisional figures.) (a) To Allied and Associated Powers … 3,306 (b) Sold to Luxemburg, Textile Alliance of the United States, etc. … 60 3,366 Note.—In "Deliveries in Kind" are included, under subhead (a) credits for the non-military value of war material abandoned by the German armies at the Armistice, and for various Armistice deliveries such as Rolling Stock, Fixed Railway Material, Motor Lorries and Agricultural Material, as well as for deliveries made in pursuance of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. 5,024 III. State Property in Ceded Territories. (Provisional and incomplete figures.) Exclusive of Schleswig-Holstein shown in I (b) above … — 2,554 Total … — 7,578
PRIOR CHARGES. Millions of gold marks. 1. Reimbursement of Spa Coal Advances … … 392 2. Costs of Occupation to 30th April, 1921 … … 2,132 3. Costs of Occupation to 30th September, 1922 … … 277 2,801 The amount to be regarded as paid for Reparation is therefore, in millions of gold marks, 7,578 less 2,801=4,777 million gold marks.
Note.—(1) The costs of the U.S.A. Army of Occupation, which amounted to 1,011 million gold marks for the period to 30th April, 1921, and to 56 million gold marks for the subsequent period to 30th April, 1922 (the latest date for which figures are available) are not taken into account in the above statement.
(2) The charges for the Armies of Occupation shewn above are arrived at after taking into account requisitions of paper marks by the Armies amounting to an approximate total of 601 million gold marks.
§ Mr. A. T. DAVIESasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Sir John Bradbury has received any instructions to support French claims in regard to reparations due from Germany under the Treaty of Versailles; and, if so, what is the nature of these instructions?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative, and the second part therefore does not arise. I would remind my hon. Friend520W that the functions of the Reparation Commission are defined by the Treaty of Versailles, and the delegates of particular Powers are not appointed for the purpose of supporting or opposing the viewpoints of this or that nation.