18 MARCH 1922, Page 2

While the Allied Finance Ministers at Paris last week were

debating the apportionment of the sums paid by Germany in money or in kind, they received a pointed reminder that America expects to be repaid the cost of her Army on the Rhine. The American Government asked for the payment on account of 241,000,000 dollars (£53,500,000) before any sums were paid for reparation. As the Allies have received in all little more thani50,000030 in gold from Germany, the American claim— !which is, of 'course, perfectly just—must postpone indefinitely the 'first reparation payments, as distinguished from the pay- ments for the upkeep of the Armies on the Rhine.