§ Mr. SHORTasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total cost of the Army of Occupation, and the total payments received from Germany relative thereto?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe total cost of the Armies of Occupation in the Rhine-land since the Armistice is approximately 4,713 million gold marks, and the total receipts relative thereto (including German currency supplied to the Armies by the German Government) approximately 3,384 million gold marks, made up as follows:
Cost. Receipts (in millions of gold marks). France 1,990 1,782 United States 1,226 238 British Empire 1,150 1,017 Belgium 337 337 Italy 10 10 4,713 3,384 The great bulk of the cost was incurred during the first two years after the 1692W Armistice; and the costs were limited, as from 1st May, 1922, by the Inter-Allied Agreement of 11th March, 1922, and, as from the 1st September, 1924 (when the Dawes Plan was introduced) by the Paris Agreement of the 14th January last (Command Paper 2,339).
This latter Agreement also provided special allocations out of future Dawes Annuities for the gradual liquidation of the balances due to the United States (Article 3 (A) (1)) and to France and Great Britain (Article 21).