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THE AMERICA CUP.
RESOLUTE'S FIRST VISTORY.
Herr Hugo Stinner, the The United Methodist Confer- Business King of Germany, has ende recently deckled upon the Daily Chronicle:-The third Mr. H. J. Grandison writes in been a prominent figure in Eur new departure the appointment race in the America Cup contest (opean affairs of låta. Not af a bishop" for the Kent area has resulted in a victory for the great deal has hitherto been told There was some discussion on defender, on a 15 mile course ta of him, but in the following article the title-bishop, moderator,- or windward and home again. Mr. George Renwick, the Darily general superintendent and tha Chronicle's Berlin Correspondent, committee's recommendation of sailed, and, should Resolute win At least one more race must be gives'a full and graphic story general of this ambitions industrial adopted.
was again, then the context will run Napoleon
the full length of five races. - The decision is the outcome of Since existing terms governing Who will go to the Spa Com- big movement to wipe off the the contest have obtained, no, ference?" I asked a prominent debt of the 35 United Methodist contest has gone beyond three Government official in Berlin a churches in Xant by 1922, and it completed races. few weeks ago. "Stinnes?" was stated that the scheme was
"Yes, I think he will be one of proving so successful that there a true breeze. In the preliminary Resolution won yesterday in the delegation," was the reply. was practically a resurrection af jockeying Resolute's skipper wasĮ
"Who will the others be?" United Methodism in Kent and a beaten. **Well," said the official, after
Shamrock crossed tha moment's hesitation, "does it matter much?”
East and
big aggressiva enterprise in the starting line with a lead of 19 coast towns is now contemplated. saconds.
An appeal was made by some That little conversation about of the delegates. for bishope the Spa Conference, the most im-to bo appointed for portant international happening Anglia. South Wales, since the signatures were put to Deron and Cornwall, and the ex the Treaty of Versailles, pats the President (Rev. John Moore) said present situation in Germany in that would eventually base to be dona, but at the moment it was a question of finance.
a nutshell.
A SINISTER FIGURE
The Government-any Gorera ment-may agree to this or that may sign anything: but the final word, the final deed, rests with Herr Hugo Stiones.
Who is this man who "held up the Spa Conference so dramati- cally, and who hopes to "hold ap" Europe and dictate to it be fore he is done with it?
HIS MISSION TO RUSSIA. "Trade follows the
Bag?
BATTLE OF WITS. Then a great batile ensued be tween short racking and every legitimate the skippers Resolute secured the lead but Burton, byį device known to an experienced halmsman, tried to wrest the lead from his opponent, but all without avail.
settled.
and Shamrock had the empty This is exactly what happened. honour of finishing and losing or time allowance.
mising for racing, and the start Conditions were not very pro- was postponed until 1 o'clock.
With the breeze from the south- west, the mark-boat was laid 15 miles south-west of the starting point.
said the Wesleyans were trying mark, and if only the wind held
The President (Rev. H. Smith); the experiment of bishops with true, the result of the race was Resolute rounded the weather varied success. In some cases the result was doubtful, but in wonderful success. other cases they were proving *succeeded in passing her rival. On the run home, Shamrock;
One would almost expect this. one of Berlin's biggest hotels, and behind, getting the first of the With the wind astern, the boat nearly all the ships which are left breeze, would close up and when He is a man of Jewish origin, to Germany can be moved at his she got naar, could blanket ber bora less than 50 years ago. If bidding. Certain it is that all the opponent. you saw him at work at his desk ships abe, will build for herself! with his coat off, you would take will be at his direct or indirect him to be a clerk in a colliery command. office. He is always carelessly, The Hindenburgs and Loden- shabbily dressed; his boots are dorffs, the Bethmanns and von habitually down at heel. With his Kuehlmanns have gone from their close-cropped, dark hair and places, and it riatters little to black beard and moustache, his Stinnes: he laughs at poltiics and pallid features, his twisted nose, despises diplomacy. large, sharp eyes, he looks a sinister figure.
To him power is as the breath Rubbish!" he once said in both skippers were keen on get- of life. It is not in him to play hearing. "It has nothing to doting position, and neither seemed In manoeuvring for the start second iddle; bo left his father's with either fazs or freatiers." great business because those He will not be bounded by any wo minutes' grace allowed for over him were in his way; hefborder-post in his endeavours:
to taka say consideration of the Isuached out for bimself and on business to him is international intent on securing weather berth his own lines.
crossing the line. Each was he hopes to win first place in the for the start of the 15 miles beat French coal industry, just as to windward, and honours fell to To hear much of him before the he looks to a trading union be Shamrock's helmsman, who cross- war you had to go to the Muel-tween Germany and Rossie to beim coal region, or to the British, dominate business Europe.
ed the line 19sec. ahead ofhis rival German and French ports where
I saw him the other day lunch-
The official starting times the export is mainly coal. Yet ing with one of the chiefs of a before those fateful days of trade mission which Germany is
Shamrock IV. August 1914 be was a millionaire going to send to Russia. It will.
Resolate several times over. The war gare be a Stinnes mission more than
... 1.0.41 Shamrock, with the advantage him a great chance, and. grasping anything else, sad at that of weather berth, commenced to the opportunity, he became the lancheon table it received its work out a lead, but Resolute's Fatherland's biggest war pro-instructions.
skipper, though asteru, was deter- fiteer.
Stinnes. 1 hare His caal enabled the Goeben laughs at politics.
said, mined upon making a keen fight, and the Breslau to reach safety a member of
and soon flung about on the the in the Dardanelles; be amassed tag. but be thinks little of that,
Reichsopposite tack.
Burton naturally followed, and millions out of Belgium between for be dominates a much more a great struggle ensued between 1914 and 1913: bs was the in important body-the Reichswirts- the pair, Resolute repeatedly famous idea to despoil Belgian ebaftsrat or Economic Parlia-going about and Shamrock every factories and deport Belgian ment, a body unique in Europe. time following spit in the en workers; he could order Hinden-That Reichstag of Business will deavour to keep the defender burg and Ludendorff about; the ran Germany, and it ill do under her lee. ox-Kaiser entertained a lively Stinnes' bidding. fear and a sneaking admiration
In this short tacking Resolute; He thinks he has the workers steadily closed on her opponent. for him.
in his bands. Once, after the As often s5
Resolute went.
HOW HE MADE MILLIONS.
NAPOLEOS OF FINANCE.
Ho
were
1.0.22.
~ revolution of 1918, his miners about, Shamrock had to do the And while Germany was being order had gone, he was told: the weather gange of her rival.
sent a deputation to him; the old same, if she wished to keep the fought down he was piling up mines were to be run by the his financial fortunes and adding miners, and so on. Stinnes, with right for the defender, she steadily Resolute's tactics proved to the sources of is power. The his coat off and looking like a closed on the challenger, n exploits of American railway miner too, replied, in effect: "Oh. after an hour a sailing was able kings, oil magnates and-steel fake the mines, by all means. Ito serve out a weather bowing to
bosses are almost child's play throw them at your heads.” when compared with his.
the Lipton boat.
of the
The deputation turned to go. One word more," said Stinnes.
He has been compared with
BURTON'S TURN. the late Herr Ballin, the greatYou can't run mines, you know. to worry his opponent, but the chieftain
Then it came to Burton's turn America Line, but the ways of want me back. I'll come-ou my and the truer the breeze the better Hamburg can. In three months you'll wind was increasing in weight, the two men were fundamentally on terma." The deputation was were the prospects of the weather different.
"The secret of the success of Stinges raised his miners' wages.
left to think over it. Ten days ster boat in maintaining her position. my concern," Herr Ballin once told me, "is that in it there is nobis bands. While other mines go hours on their journey, and short- Certainly be has these men in after the boats bad been two The wind freshened to ten knots place for the smart young man."on strike, the Stiones minere ly after it was blowing at twelve Ballin required the steady, experi-remain at work. He is too big a knots, beeling both vessels so that enced lieutenant. Stinnes wants the smart young men," wants
man to strike against. bis fresh ideas, his suggestions,
lee rails were awash and the OWN9 70 NEWSPAPERS. his daring, his brains; he uses
water swishing along the decks. Meanwhile among the people them till the supply dries up.
Resolute was at one time judged his 70, newspapers spread the to be a half-mije ahead but Sham- And his has been a success far Stinnes gospel the gospel of rock was doing well in the harder beyond Ballin's, though a soul work. They show what tragedy breeze and was less than two destroying success, sinister as the the war of politics has wronght minutes axtaro at the outer mark, man himself-looks.
and will work. He wants to raise when the times of turning were:~-~~ KING COAL AND THE COAL KING, party or parties, not to play at Resolute
3" 21 21 "I build on coal," he once said politics, but as a means to one Shamrock IV ........ 3 23 6 to me in days long before the war ran her with one sim-industry: end: to run a business Germany, "From coal you go on toiron and with his wealth and his influence ordinary Rhine wine, his big deals steel, then to the various he will endeavour to make that and his enormous interests are There, over simple fare and dustries, to ships, to commerce. Or*--it should now be "and" political force so
strong that discussed; chairs are laden with coal will lead you to wood and Bolshevist, Communist, or Social: Then his young son and daughter there will be no hope for documents and aftacbe cases, forests, 10 wood-pulp and paper-list experimentalists. Coal is king.
Coal is his king and god. At will be run from the desk of Herr will vanish in an engaging smile, Germany appear; his sinister look Spa he is fighting for coal,
Stianes and not Germany alone and, after he bas kissed them, he see how he has built on it. Hel
if he has his way.
will chat and joke with them. owns 15 or 16 groupe of mines; he fi
THIS SIMPLE LIFE. bad his band in France (where he Yet there is a humati side || (and again), and in Englated (Adion Hotel in Berlia
has lately been spying out the this astounding man. Luxembourg is practically his lives in a big suits of he makes paper colinlok and hold"","open-bane) motor-cars; vast forests belong to restaurant his table him; be distributes practically for w diasi ganit all the cost of Germany, her own Foding. BeütesüNTAL)
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