Colonel Claude Lowther, who on behalf of three hundred and
seventy Members of Parliament warned the Prime Minister that he was expected to make Germany pay the bill, sent him a further telegram to say that any immediate contribution from the enemy must be treated as a payment on account. Germany should be required to pay more when her- potential assets could be measured. The Prime Minister, replying last Sunday, said that the experts, in estimating Germany's ability to pay, would " take full account of further possibilities:* The three hundred and seventy Members had been actuated, said Colonel Lowther, by " no spirit of disloyalty." They seem, however, to have a poor opinion of the Prime hrmister's trustworthiness. We cannot imagine Mr Gladstone's followers solemnly and publicly reminding him by telegram of his pledges.
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