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Show I MINISTER GIVES ! OUT STATEMENT Report of Belgian Minister of jy Finance in Regard to Ger- I mans Seizing Money. fl Havre, Sept. 18. 11 p. m Aleys IS i e VIvere. Belgian minister of ly finance, this evening, issued the fol- lowing statement: ljj "Te German wireless from Nauen I . September 16 explicitly admits It tne, Iact of the transfer, after long M resistance, of the funds of the Nail Na-il Uonal bank and the Sociate Gencrale B ml S1 to the Imperial bank. I i ! m? ot the tireless, in addt-Jl addt-Jl , tion, permit presumption that the Ger- 11; mans decided to replace the funds ex- torted by placing in circulation the W forced currency without a real guar- jj j antee. I "In accordance with Its. usual acts. 8 ;6 German government denies that Hi there is any connection between that Wm f.x Portion and the arrest and deporta-lltt deporta-lltt alB0 admltted, of M. Carllor di-I di-I ill recr of the Natlnal bank, it is en- II xrUE to PPse to (hat denial the fact S ?J M. earlier was arrested and deported I H witliout trial, the first of August, at II II " extortion maneuvera for the ! I "T.ho reless again denies any con- III nation between the forcible trans-til trans-til or , tho funds and the f"tli Gorman if 11 19 nevertheless, evident HI tnat this transfer gives the Imporlal Jl li - a fresh BUDnly of cash with II which to swell its subscriptions to the M loan Tho Belan government does jl , not yet know tho details of the threats u of violence employed, but it does 11 know that to broak tho resistance of I iflil II Bi the banks an ultimatum was sent t tho National bank and the Socleti Generale threatening both with im mediate sequestration and forclbh liquidation. "The protests of the Belgian min Ister of finance of the 13th and 15tl of September were then well found ed." A wireless dispatch from Berlin o: September 16 said tho report tha; the German government had seized 600,000,000 francs of tho Belgian Na Uonal bank was untrue. After nego tiatlons of several months between the National bank and tho Soclotc General, the dispatch added, German relchsbank notes, held by thcSG banks, wero to be transferred to the relchsbank relchs-bank and there credited to the Belgian Bel-gian institution. The banks agreed to tho transaction, it was stated. Donlal was also made that the assets of the bank were to be used for subscriptions to the fifth German war loan. |