Captain BENNasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will issue a statement showing the present indebtedness between the Allied and Associated Powers in the Great War?
War Loans:— Dominions— £ £ Australia … … 89,271,000 New Zealand … … 29,189,000 South Africa … … 11,884,000 Other Dominions and Colonies … … 1,146,000 131,490,000 Allies— Russia … … 722,546,000 France … … 623,279,000 Italy … … 553,300,000 Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom … … 28,481,000 Portugal, Roumania, Greece and other Allies … … 73,322,000 2,000,928,000 Relief and Reconstruction Loans:— Austria … … 10,794,000 Poland … … 4,394,000 Roumania … … 2,196,000 Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom … … 2,252,000 Other States … … 962,000 20,598,000 Belgian Reconstruction Loan … … 9,000,000 Other Loans:— Armenia … … 865,000 £2,162,881,000 2. The following figures are taken from a table on page 255 of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the United States Treasury for the fiscal year ended 30th June, 1923, which shows
the obligations of foreign Governments held by the United States Treasury together
— Obligations representing cash advanced under Liberty Bond Acts. Obligations received on account of sales of surplus war material. Obligations received on account of relief supplies furnished and sales of flour. $ $ $ United Kingdom 4,600,000,000.00 — — Russia 236,289,603.07 436,538.48 5,176,930.88 France 3,583,316,460.03 407,341,145.01 — Italy 2,015,079,396.73 — — Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom 31,977,884.67 29,609,271.83 — Roumania and other Allies 469,436,225.08 45,325,971.92 — Austria — — 28,385,736.54 Poland — 91,990,692.71 90,480,611.14 Other States — — 42,608,350.36 3. I am not aware of any up-to-date figures of debts due to France or Italy, but those are relatively small in amount.