PROSPERITY REIGNS IN FLANDERS
Reading edition
Four hundred and eighty millions of francs have been imposed as a war tax but soup is given gratis
PROCLAMATION
A War Contribution, amounting to 480,000,000 francs, to be paid in monthly installments over the course of a year, is imposed on the population of Belgium.
The payment of these sums devolves upon the Nine Provinces, which are held collectively responsible for the discharge of it.
The two first installments are to be paid up, at latest, on January 15, 1915, and the following installments on the 10th, at latest, of each following month, to the Field Army Treasury of the Imperial Governor-Generalship at Brussels.
In case the Provinces have to resort to the issue of bonds in order to obtain the funds necessary, the form and terms of these bonds will be settled by the Imperial Commissary-General for the Banks in Belgium.
Baron von Bissing, Governor-General in Belgium. Brussels, December 10, 1914.
