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Show Occupation Expensive to Germany Berlin. The allied occupation of the Rhineland for the pait four years has C0Bt Germany 4,500.000.000 gold marks, according to a statement made to the reichstag Saturday by Minister of the Treasury Albert. This total expenditure up to the end of last year did not Include expenditures for occupation of the territories taken ns anctiona by the allies or the cost of maintaining the allied control commissions. com-missions. The occupying forces in the Rhineland were more tlmn 100 per cent greater than the number of troops with which Germany garrisoned this area before the war, said the minister. |