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Show THE GERMAN WAR INDE31NI TT. According to the laict advices fmm Europe, the war indemnity paid bj France to Germany will be dealt with -y the German Federal Council as follows: fol-lows: The military pensions fund will receive an appropriation of $192,000,-OUO, $192,000,-OUO, and $3li,tHju,U00 will be invested as a fund to cover the preliminary expenses ex-penses oi future wars, Next, the owners own-ers of captured vessels and cargoes arc to be compensated for their losses lecording to certain specified lules, ind cities and villages damaged by bombarJmcDt or cannonade are to be reouilt. Strasbourg is to receive $40,720,0u0; Ttiionvillc, $2,400,000; Schlettsmdr, fci.OOO.UOO, and Brei.-ach, SI.U40.000. The services serv-ices rendered to the German army by the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine Lor-raine are to be paid tor, including provisions pro-visions delivered, horses and ftagon.-impressed, ftagon.-impressed, and similar transactions, fne repair and enlargement of the fortresses in the annexed teintory will also form a large item of expenditure and $5,600,0u0 have been allotted in aid of the Germans who were expelled from France. The balance, after these payments, is to be distributed among the German slates, each state receiving a fund proportionate 10 the number of men and horses supplied to the army. Ax. I |