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Show WAR INDEMNITY $500,000 WEEKLY Amsterdam Xov. 2, via London. 11 a m A telegram received here from Berlin announces that after protracted protract-ed negotiations the war indemnity to tbe Germans for the city of Brussels has been fixed at 45.000,000 francs ($0,000,000), payable 2,500,000 francs (5011,000 dollars) weekly. The Germans occupied Brussels August Au-gust 20. According to a dispatch from Antwerp to a London newspaper, they passed against the city a war levy of 540.0011,000. At the same time they were reported to have levied on 'ho province of Brabant, of which Brussels Brus-sels is the capital, for $90,000,000 This dispatch, however, was never of-1 ficlally confirmed. A later telegram j from Flushing said that Brussels had paid $4,O0CL0O0 of the S40.ono.onu rle-l I manded. |