The German Reparation (Recovery) Bill was read a second time
in the House of Commons on Monday. Mr. Chamberlain asked for the unanimous support of the House in carrying out the decisions of the Allies. Dr. Simons had challenged the whole basis of the Peace Treaty, and Germany had failed to fulfil her obligations. By taking half the value of German imports, the Government would collect in any one year the full total of the reparation due to the British Empire under the terms made in Paris. If Germany did not repay her exporters the sums de- ducted here, her trade would be laid under an embargo. Mr. Chamberlain explained that goods which had originated in Germany but to which 25 per cent. of their value had been added in neutral countries would not be regarded as German goods. Germany, he said, must tax her people as the British people were taxed, and must be made to see that we were in earnest about reparation.
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