them.
(e) Repayment of fines and requisitions levied by the enemy Governments or their officers on French municipalities or nationals.
(f) Compensation to French nationals deported or compelled to do forced labor.
In addition to the above there is a further item of more doubtful character, namely—
(g) The expenses of the Relief Commission in providing necessary food and clothing to maintain the civilian French population in the enemy-occupied districts.
The Belgian claim would include similar items.78 If it were argued that in the case of Belgium something more nearly resembling an indemnity for general war costs can be justified, this could only be on the ground of the breach of International Law involved in the invasion of Belgium, whereas, as we have seen, the Fourteen Points include no special demands on this ground.79 As the cost of Belgian Belief under (g), as well as her general war costs, has been met already by advances from the British, French,