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Show OF BILLION IN I MARCH, DEMAND J Allies Tell Germany to Be-' gin Settling By 23rd of Month FRENCH FORCE GROWS System for Collecting Cus- j toms in Occupied Zone Set Forth PARIS .March 16. t By the Associated Asso-ciated Press i The allied reparations commission. In lis note to Germany demanding fulfillment of Article of the peace treaty, notified the German Ger-man government it must p.iy one billion bil-lion cold marl-1 h.-fore March 21 i' wm announced today. Tt must complete the payment of Z6tOOQ.000.000 pold marks by May 1 The commission gave Germany until April 1 to submit a proposal to pay the holance of the I'n.nnO.OdO.nriO marks otherwise than in cash. Germany may submit a plan for r. foreign loan, the proceeds of which shall be. payable to the rommls'lon. The commission announced thnt Germany Ger-many had virtually refused to pay the! balance, asserting the n.ooo.oon.noo marks had been fullj paid. The mono must be deposited in the Rank of France, Rank of London Lon-don or the federal reserve bank In the I'nited states Germany was told. Mtl NTS 1 XED S-imo time ago the commission announced an-nounced that the allied claims for re-paratlons re-paratlons had been forwarded to Rerun. Rer-un. Th exact total of these claims has not been arpopneed, but in usually weii-:niormei cpiariers u is Pain tnev probably would amount to approximately approxi-mately 5.r,ft,OOO.nOO.O0O gold marks or elght-two nnd one-half times the figures fixed for Indemnities by ihe Paris conference Computation of the total reparations was difficult, chiefly because of the widely fluctuating exchange ex-change rates, ns well as the vast task of cheeking claims and computing the pre-war values and transforming them into today s figures on' falling markets mar-kets N I W FORC F.s VRRI1 l I M SBURG, March 16. (By the Associated Press) New French forces have arrived here from the occupied area and belief is expressed that their coming may foreshadow the occupation oc-cupation of Mulheim-on-Ruhr, four miles east of here, toward Essen. PI Nv TO COLLECT. CORl.K.N'Z. March 16 (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Principles to be followed fol-lowed In collecting customs In the new tariff zone established east of the Rhine by entente forces have been outlined in a report sent to the allies hy the Rhinehmd commission. The report also outlines the .one whioh would begin at Mulhelm and run ulong the line of the extreme outposts of the newly occupied territory and along the bridgeheads established by the entente. General Allen, commander of the American forces here, has participated participat-ed unofficially In discussion of questions ques-tions relative to the tariff and tho limits of the new zone. |