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THE GERMAN SUPPLY OF
GOLD.
MUNCHAUSEN FINANCE..
[BY A NEUTRAL CORRESPONDENT OF "THE TIMES."1"
TURKISH PRISONERS.
HOW THEY ARE TREATED.
(PROM TUR DAILY TELEGRAPH'S" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
was all we know."
ALLIE' BARE
An indication of the financial position of the country can only be obtained by comparing the stock of gold with tho various issues of paper. On July 3rd, whom the Austrian ultimatum was launch. ed, the note issue of the Imperial Bank amounted to £94,000,000. With two plentiful in Germany Enormous mases. On May 31st it reached nearly £208,000,000 To the superficial observer money seems operations, this total has constantly risen, oxxptions, connected with the War Loau
of notes are in circulation, and of late sterling Thus, while the gold holding of the authorities have largely increased the the Bank has been nearly doubled, its own number of silvor and nickel coins.
EASTEUN MEDITERRANEAN, May 18, No note issue has increased by nearly 300 për gold is to be seen; but in this the German cont. Alongside of it there has grownlised, that wo were going to fight the British "We did not know, when we were mobi people finds nothing very exceptional up a state of things such that oven the The Germans are used to paper and do large payments made in respect of the last and the French. We were told we were being abundant, not distrust it even when it is over War Loan have given the Bank little relief set on maneuvres for forty-five days. That Morcover, the possibility of doubt has the financial structure are beginning to by the French at Kum, Kale, on the second from its liabilities. The weak points of The Turkish prisoner, one of 500 captured been dispelled by the propagands carried appear, though few notice them as yet.. on under the auspices of the authorities. The Imperial Bank is legally entitled to danelles, and now in the prisonors' camp here, day of the landing by the Allies at the Dar- Much of the later war literature deals issue notes up to three times the amount raised his head for a memont from his work with financial, commercial, and industrial of its holding in gold and Treasury bills and glanced at his interrogator. I have no questions.
A large proportion of the As is known, the Imperial authorities means of confirming the additional statement scientific and popular lectures for the created at the beginning of the war evidently based on subsequent information, “information of the public deals also another means of extending the note cir: if true-that the Germans feared a Turkish with those matters. The basis of the culation. propaganda is that, apart from the actual was instituted to relieve the Imperial This Turk had the rather dull expression
An Imperial Loan Fund" revolt if they told them the truth. military operations, the most effective Bank. means of attaining victory is proper and it has 150 branches. It was authoriz certainly seems to display little knowledge Ite headquarters are in Berlin, charnetoristio of the Ottoman soldier, who economic organization. The main objected to lend papor money on marketable of the trend of events immediately preceding of this organization, as of the actual fight-aecurities and on non-perishable goods, or subsequent to the outbreak of the war. ing, is the destruction of the power of such as sugar, timber, nitrates, etc. England.
Like his fellows, though unshaven since All kinds of securities, oven shares leaving the battlefield, he was fairly clean The Germans were at the cutest well quoted on the Stock Exchange but not and woll nourished, but his general bearing aware of the economie power and sopted by the Imperial Bank as and clothing would scarcely do credit to a resources of the British Empire. Conse collateral cover," are accepted by the Western
e German uniforms which quently, with their usual thoroughness, Imperial Loan Fund. The maximum they went are serviceable they made a careful survey of their own total it is entitled to lend has recently scarcely suited to the semi-tropical conditions enough but reserves of economic strength. They been raised from. £75,000,000 to now prevalent in the Near East, rapidly organized their machinery and £180,000,000. By the end of 1914 it had In a tent a little apart from the rest of the put it in motion. The result is a remark-lent som £66,000,000. This amount has camp are five Turkish Ligutenants the only able financial edifice which, according to lately increased considerably. Securities officers brought here so far. They are sitting ite builders, will outlast even Mr. Lloyd are accepted up to 75 per cent of the last cross-legged, smoking cigarettes, but rise George's final hundred millions. In Stock Exchange quotation. reality, es
The paper with extreme courtesy to receive me and writer in
The Timce money thus issued in different from the apologise with natural charm of manner and History of the War" observed last notes of the Imperial Bank, and from quaintly deprecatory smiles for their inabi September," the only real basis of the those of the Imperial Treasury, but they lity to offer any refreshment. The tent is whole business is confidenco in the success circulate freely as money, particularly in bare of everything but the plainest neces- of German arms,"
the small denominations of 1, 9, and 6 sities. It has not been possible to supply marke. The Empire, is responsible for anything but dried grass for bedding. them, and this circumstanco, together with Those officers relations with their captors the goods that serve as security has been are evidently of the most friendly character. regarded as entitling the Imperial Bank It was difficult to realise that only a fow to accept them as gold cover for its weeks ago these Turks were doing their best notes. Consequently, the Imperial Bank to kill as many Frenchmen as they could. can issue three times as many notes as the The big, sergeant of Zouaves, who has con- amount of the Imperial Loan Fund notes ducted me, stande beaming, while he holds in its possession, Hitherto this facility back the tentflaps. As he advances the seems to have been little used; but the fact Turks take his proffered hand with that the facility exists opens up a wonder-pleasure: ful vista of pseudo-financial possibilities.
But where is Conti!" they ask. And my
Whatever its character and destiny, this edifice is cortainly unique in the economic history of the world. German financial writers vie with each other in extolling it te creation vastly superior to the finan- cial system of other countries, and Dr. Helfferieh, one of the most adroit German financiers, formerly of the Deutsche Bank and now Finance Minister, has done his best to persuade his countrymen that they are financially much better off than Eng and I heard highly educated people speak with glee of the lamentable state of British finance, not to mention the approaching bankruptcy of her Allies,
·GOLD GATHERING.
army.
The
ovident
The marvellous attributes of the Im interpreter, a French corporal, who has perial Loan Fund do not end here. Aremained for a moment in the background,
WAR_NEWS.
MILITARY RULE IN GERMANY.
COMPLAINTS OF PREPOSTEROUS 'ACTIONS,
exercise
NO ENTHUSIASM FOR GERMANY,
man who holds shares or other securities comes forward to receive the salutations. he cannot cell may obtain from the One of the officers, who speaks French fairly The entry of England into the war Traperial Fund a lean up to 75 per cent wall, disclaims any German education on his involved the prospect that Germany would of the pre-war quotations of those securi own behalf and that of his comrades. He soon be cut off from the world's markets, ties. With this ameant he can subscribe received his tuition partly in Stamboul, but and would be unable to pay for the bulk to the War Loan. When a second War mostly, as he says on the battlefield. And of imports save in gold. It is significant Loan comes he can subscribe to it on con-Turkey has always been at war," he adds, that during the months preceding the war ditions gill more favourable, and may use
significantly. the German authorities had already his holding in the first War Loan as drawn much gold into the country. security for raising from the Imperial Those who studied the efflux of gold from Fund the amount of his second subscrip rights and wrongs of the war. They simply They apparently havo no views us to the London at that time were puzzled by the tion. There is no reason why this opera-say, justly enough, that they are soldiers, constant movement of bullion towards the tion should not go on ad infinitumor and had to obey their orders. Enthusiasm Continent. Its destination was then held until defeat in the field brings the whole for (fermany's Gims they show none. Each to be Russia, A prominent German artificial structure crashing to the receives nearly 3 a day--the pay of a French banker told me it was not and he prob- ground. ably knew
officer of equivalent rank. It iA difficult As has frequently been explained, the
through the medium of an interpreter-zone Imperial Bank set at once to work to
of the common soldiers speak French-to | gather to itself all the gold coin in the
discover the real feelings of tho men. Country: According to the Bank records,
Whether from Oriental duplicity or not, I Germany had up to the end of July, 1914,
um told that many of these well-fed prisoners coined £256,500,000 in gold, of which much
would be ready enough to shout Vive la had been melted down for industrial pur Some instances of the way in which the République!" or "Vive le Roi!" if they poses. Some had gone abroad. The military authorities
thought it suited their purpose. But always Bank estimated the coined gold actually authority in Germany came up for discus no overweening love for the
their admitting that the Turks as a
a nation have in the country on the outbreak of war at sion at a sitting of the Reichstag Budget is no evidence of personal hostility towards rather less than £200,000,000, The Bank Commission.
по The censorship, it was the Allies. Few of them have ever seen a itself held £76,400,000 of gold and silver stated, had acted in the roost preposterous German officer with the Turkish The total circulation of mosey, including way, especially in Alsace and Lorraine. though they say they have heard there are coin, bank notes, and Treasury notes, was In Strasburg it was forbidden to mention many such. Many of them have become estimated to be about £325,000,000 that milk had gone up another time a aware of the real Power whose machinations sterling.
speech in the Reichstag was censored in have brought them here as captives. Not a Rustringen things even went so far that few bave a profound dislike for their late even the publication of the official reports musturs. was veroed. The Government has given all its powers to the military, declared could climb through the barbed wire which The guards at the camp are for You the Socialist deputy, Herr Hanse. But surrounds, the tents without. tearing your the laws cannot be made invalid by an act clothes; the object is to keep out the curious of the military."ude
as much as to prevent escape. The prisoners. Another interesting case was the one of comprise twenty-eight Orthodox Greek Duty Peirates, who was transported Christians, two Armenians, two Arale, and from Alsace to Mueoden on no ascertain one few. These were all Ottoman subjects. able grounds. "How are ordinary citi The position of the Greck prisoners seems zens treated. if such a thing can happen rather hard. They say they were forced by to a deputy?" very pertinently asked a the Turks to take up arms, and have asked deputy. As usual, the name of Herr Lichto be allowed to fight under the French flag knecht was also mentioned. The military against their oppressors Meantime they court had brought a charge of political are perforce treated the same as the other: While on the one hand the Bank thus demonstration against him, and in the prisoners, except that they are permitted to garnered gold it was on the other relieved meanwhile threatened with punishment attend service at the little Greek
charch of its obligation to pay gold in exchange any of his comrades who spoke to him. the hill opposite. The mon are quartered as. for its notes. The urgency of this measure Protesta also came from Polish deputies comfortably as circumstances will permit. was shown by the run on all kinds of against the measures forbidding the use Their eaup is on the slope of a hill on which banks that occurred between the Austrian of Polish in letters from abroad, and the Asian sun hammers down relentlessly. ultimatum to Serbia and the German among the soldiers fighting in Russian The twently-five tents are placed in terraced declaration of war. During that period Poland
2 Taurinaryzm, in the shade, is dage
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YOUSH OF WIND, Mccording to Boanfest Seals. It was through the private banks and 1 STATE OF WEating, b hius aky, o detached the big industrial concerns that the Im cloud, i ddaning rain, E. Log, s gloomy, MD,perial Bank chiefly worked; but when the rlightning, o 'overat, p pasang alowers a squa, supply from these sources ceased, a gen- raiz, #know, ś khunder, vviability, w dow (wet) eral gold propaganda was organized Bani in inches, & tutkwwad hundredthr. throughout the Empire School children were extensively used to gather gold coins from their parents. It is said that in the secondary schools of Berlin more than £50,000 werb; collected. Similarly gold rings and other gold objects were gathered in by appealing to the patriotism of the people. This particular wave has already passed, but it was very effective while it fasted.
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rows, like seats in a theatre, to facilitate the Imperial Bank lost nearly £10,000,000
drainage
The prisoners lie hard o' nights in in gold, while its note circulation was
their clothes, on scanty straw bedding, increased, in a single week, by some
As I have seen from personal observation £31,000,000. There were many failures
the food given them is abundant and of ad Gradually, among the smaller banke.
mirable quality. They do their own cooking things were righted. At the end of the
and do it first week in August the gold holding of particulars concerning two German spies is followed by four hours' labour, from six to The Dutch Press contains interesting of a good drearkably well-in the intervala work. Coffee in the morning the Imperial Bank had risen to who recently endeavoured to enter the ten o'clock. Then they are given two hours £73,800,000, as compared with £02,650.000 Belgian Army. These young men, who off for dinner an excellent iness of mutton
USEFUL WORK.
on July 31st. On August 15th it had risen spoke both Flemish and French, mixed or beef, rice, and haricot beans. They work to £75,450,000-increases explained by the with a number of others intending to pro- again from midday to five o'clock, after transfer to the Bank of the War Treasure ceed by way of England to Flanders. which they are free to rest and cook their from the Julius Tower at Spandau, They had no difficulty at Flushing as supper-meat and vegetables. amounting in all to £10,200,000 in gold, they had military pocket-books and other besides £1,750,000 in Treasury notes and things proving their good faith. £330,000 in silver coin. Week by week up left by the boat for Tibury, whence they They to the end of November the influx of gold wore forwarded with others to Felkestone, trudging stolidly to their toil on upland and Morning and afternoon you can see them to the Bank varied between £1,500,000 and with a view to proceeding to France, by the waterside. They have accepted their £2,500,000. The greater part came from where they were to be incorporated with fate with the utmost resignation, if not good- the gold coin in circulation. There is no the Belgian infantry, with which, accord will. The Turks converse amiably enongly evidence that any considerable amount ing to their papers, they had already with the Zouaves who escort them. came at that time from the gold reserve served.
of the Austro-Hungarian State Bank. At Folkestone, however, there chanced and have nearly completed an excellent have already done very usefal work here, Such gold as the Bank paid out went to be attached to the passport examina- mainly to neutral countries in payment tion staff a Belgian soldier belonging to Allies. They bring timbor to the French
which will be jetty,
of great value to the for goods. The amount varied between the same company as that to which the bakery repair the rough madway lead £500,000 and £1,000,000 a week during the two young men stated they belonged. Asing to the various encampments, and, in carlier stages of the war.
Since the beginning of the present year allowed to proceed, but were kept under French hospital camp. Whether they realise the paper wore in order the men were addition, have erected stone buildings at the the influx has fallen off, and has now observation were followed rad seen labour to perforta. become almost insignificant. During the
it or not they are fortunate in having honest
week ending May 15th it was only to enter an obscure inn near the harbour,
At Calais they
£140,400 on May 22nd it was £110,200 whence they issued a little later in base hospital of the French army, Only the The French hospital camp is the auxiliary and on May 31st only £4,750. On May private clothes. They then parted, going lesser wounds are treated bers, but this
Bank
returned as £118,972,750, as compared the knowledge of the other, who was kept enough of the terrible injuries inflicted by with £52,050,000 on July 31st, 1914. Thus under observation with a view to the dissbell fire and the Turkish bullets. Hugs it is evident that the supply of gold in covers of his confederates. the country outside the Bank is acarly The man who had been arrested, when retaining their characteristic cheerfulness lis
Senegalese, with shattered legs and a
Farms, but exhausted. At the same time it is prob he saw that the game was up, sdraitted side by side with beardless French boys of 18 able that with the progressive economic that the intention had been to enter the and swarthy veterans. An Australian soldier isolation of Germany the outfox of gold will also decrease, though in this conce. Belgian Army with the object of serving here has shown me a sharp nosed Turkish tion it must be noted that many foreign German interests. The papers which he bullet. It is brass-tipped, and for that reason payments have been made by sporting and his companion had shown belonged to and because of its sharp point could not be American and other foreign securities held prisoners of war, whose descriptions made a dudum. But there is testimony in Germany. How great this amount may agreed with their own. He would not that the Turks or the Germans have con be there are no means of ascertaining.
verted bullets into dum-duas.
roven his real name,