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VI. The Assessment announced by the Reparation

Commission, April 30, 1921

The Reparation Commission, in discharge of the provisionsof Article 233 of the Treaty of Versailles , has reached a unanimousdecision to fix at 132 milliard gold marks the total of the damagesfor which reparation is due by Germany under Article 232 (2)and Part VIII., Annex I. of the said Treaty .

In fixing this figure the Commission have made the necessarydeductions from the total of damages to cover restitutionseffected or to be effected in discharge of Article 238, so that nocredit will be due to Germany from the fact of these restitutions.

The Commission have not included in the above figure thesum corresponding to the obligation, which falls on Germany asan addition in virtue of Article 232 (3), " to make reimbursementof all sums which Belgium has borrowed from the Allied andAssociated Governments up to November 11, 1918, together withinterest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum on such sums."

VII. The Second Ultimatum of London, May 5, 1921

The Allied Powers, taking note of the fact that, in spite ofthe successive concessions made by the Allies since the signatureof the Treaty of Versailles , and in spite of the warnings andsanctions agreed upon at Spa and at Paris, as well as of thesanctions announced in London and since applied, the GermanGovernment is still in default in the fulfilment of the obligationsincumbent upon it under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles as regards (1) disarmament; (2) the payment due on May 1,1921, under Article 235 of the Treaty , which the ReparationCommission has already called upon it to make at this date ;(3) the trial of the war criminals as further provided for by theAllied Notes of February 13 and May 7, 1920 ; and (4) certainother important respects, notably those which arise under Articles264 to 267, 269, 273, 321, 322, and 327 of the Treaty , decide :—

(a) To proceed forthwith with such preliminary measures asmay be required for the occupation of the Ruhr Valley