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Show HUNDRED BILLION MARKS, SUM ASKED OF GERMAN PEOPLE I j TAK1S. April 14. (By the Associated Press.) One hundred billion gold marks i is tne amount Germany must pay tlie allied and associated governments for i losses a rid da ma ire caused by tlie war, I pi us other billions to be determined by j a ppeeial commission, on which Oer-j Oer-j many is to be represented. This is the final and det'inttf conclusion conclu-sion which has been reduced to writing after weeks of negotiation which took a wide rane and Involved frequent changes and modifications. The payment of the one hundred billion poid marks is to be j divided into three distinct amounts, as I follows: Kirst, twenty bilitons within two years; second, forty billions dunp thirty yers. beKinnins in 1'.'21; tiiird. forty billions w'nen a commission shall determine how it shall be dune. 5,000,000,000 in May, 1921. Germany under the peace treaty mu?t pay ?3,uO'J,000,000 in cash or the p. uivalent in commodities before -May 1. 1121. he must also tsue immediately to the allied and associated government? $Ju,'JOc,u0U,-00) $Ju,'JOc,u0U,-00) of interest-bearinir bonds. The interest on the bonds until 12 6 wili be either 2 or 3 per cent and after that date will be 5 per cent, according to the present plan. The bonds will be payab tn installments install-ments durinpr a period of fifteen years. They probably will be Kent in the control con-trol of a central com mission o: the allied al-lied and associated governments, so that they shall not be marketed in quantities sufficient to break tne price. Not AYhole of Punishment. The exact amount of the bond if?ue will be determined later, according to the kind of money in which it must be paid. If the monev is marks, the sum will be Urirer than f-JO.O'.'M.OOO.i.'OO at the rate of exchange before the war. but that Is the p.Mieral nominal sum. Thse two sums J.T.OOu.uOO.000 cash and JJt.'.OOO.OOO.OOO in bonds are not all t:iat Germany wi.I have to pay. They are th-.- minimum. Germany also mus. obligate herself to pay other amounts for d.imace done, appropriate ap-propriate to her means, to be determined bv a mixed commits ion of representatives representa-tives of the allied and assoc!a:pd governments govern-ments and of Germany, which shaji report re-port before May 1, In view of the fluctuations through w hlch the negotiations have parsed, an authoritative statement was obtained today to-day confernir.s the :!na! terms of tho scttlTnTt. This sums up th.e conditions as follows; Conditions Summed Up. "Germany is at the outset he'd eer.era'-ly eer.era'-ly responsible for lessee and dama;s in accordance with President "Wilson's fourteen four-teen points and the allied response at the time of the armistice was concluded. To dft-rm;n the extent of tho payment under un-der thus responsibility a commission is st up t'J take testimony, assemble data and arrange all details of the payments fro::: th enemy and distribution among the allied al-lied and associated powers. " WhMp the committee wil! a nndn'.-ter the d' l.uls of the payments, sufficient is known to permit the determii.at ion that an initial payment will be rt-r.dere d o:' 2 ,0i'-',.fl0r,.,y 0 gold marks, pa able in t n o I v,-4 rs w;t bout intrrest. It h'is ao b'-r. determined that 4 0.0frv :'. gold marks s..all b-' payable in bonds et.v-.a'.: g "vt a period of thirty years, brcmrhu in 1 L J 1 a::d a sinintr fund beginnirc in "These 4. ('". OoO.O'l'O marks draw C'-a per ce:it in! erf-1 from to !--. and i per cent inteic-at after l$2i. Must Deliver Cond. "In addition t tue fo-e.-.r.;; piyn-'-lv Germany will also te re-i'-ird to i-diver add ;:t"r:a! t on 1- f"r 4 1 -'.'.' marks v. .'-n t.e co:r.m:'-i':i d' teru.u-'.' S that this "hall be done. Tn. e three j a;. :r :. tw-rty. forty and forty biihous ii.g the tota' to ;"0.'v'0 .'"''''K' cold marks. " (Irvond th.s total, t . '-:;- :ri:?ion Is en '-- rd to fix a:i;-;-.:nc fur h.-r tuit n ; - ho rf quired to co. or Gcr:. .a::y's 1:1-der-te inc-s." "In ot:cr w-i-rd." r ori'-lu :es the eminent AmTl.-.m :u;r.mr:ty wi.n fra:::t-d tl.u term.!-and term.!-and f';r:i-v.ed fie fo-'-.!.i; t-u-r.:vary, - a i-n:-.l,'liMo:i P-et i;i "Alt:; p.-w.r to collect col-lect from Gf-rma ii y to tne ; :r?i ;' ci pa- to, :oy, w ::!;.:. t.ic hr.;.ta;:':i o: her i:.dobt. d:.c- - U is in the C""d rark trat ad rayn-enf are ex; rc--ed in t o fi"al t'-r::.-. T ". exclud-- d re. i.i ie.J ta;.-r n.. irks an ; . f:v.'S t. e r'.an.d.i'd of i.iyuient in i,"V.d. Th-ir!d Th-ir!d mark i" worth afi: t.ne .rrc ;s th- rln'ds.i kI.i.Hp b.-:ore the war vas quoted at HJ.SJ .:.ier;in ter.'.s. Allotment Undecided. j The allotment of The ' . r-.trk-i ainonu the n'lie nr.d ;iici;itc i i powers has n't yet i-een f;n:i;iy de-nd-d. I but a t'-ntat've an a: cedent n.ahes the! si'ntmf::! of Krai'-e r,'o:i: n.-r r nt of the t-tal. 'irc.tt H-; tain's alotm-'r.t be- fArft and " v r c-nt ,mi the i.ll-n- j p:c:it of the l "mted t'.atts t a .en ttn.d i h v-r cent. T'.e fxt of the pruritic rlan'-e of the tern.-, wn. ren-.- ;e:::::,rv is i 1 . i ger.eru'ly rePi-tonaiblc. rf.uis Mibstantiauy ai follow fol-low r : "The fl ' lied nrd :i.i v.t; ed pow er a f-flrm f-flrm and Germttt-y admits rc;- 'ut:m!ity fo- .! iv"'S and i:aii;aces o-' the nlnrd aud asyou.tted K ern m . t j :. r.d th.eir ra-lloi'.i ra-lloi'.i fri-i;i tne imjusti'dabic warfare waned by the enemy power acaiuM the Hi lt d a: d asson,.! trvl g ei r.mrnts." Then fc-ilnws a pro ision for the com-rnliwn com-rnliwn "ii juynnH, and extended details de-tails of th.e operations of tl t concr.ission. |