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...third week of last month Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparation Payments, perhaps the most powerful official in Germany, penned a stern, firm, yet friendly warning to the German Government that its extravagances were endangering the fiscal equilibrium of the Reich and imperiling the Dawes Plan...
Last week the note was published. Far from showing that the Reich's financial ship was sailing smoothly and serenely, Mr. Gilbert bluntly asserted that the whole fiscal system of the Reich, together with reparation payments, was imperiled by ill-considered overspending and overborrowing. Said he in the opening paragraph of his note...
...miners demanded an increase of 2½c an hour, equivalent to a 12½% rise on an average eight-hour weekly wage of $9.60, which, considering the high cost of living in the Reich, is unqualifiedly asserted to be far below decent living...
...Adolf Georg Otto von Maltzan, Baron Zu Wartenberg und Penzlin, 50, German Ambassador to the U. S., while flying in a Lufthansa monoplane from Berlin to Munich. The crash occurred near Schleiz, Thuringia. Five others were instantly killed: Baron Hans von Arnim, Lufthansa official; Herr Roell, director of the Reich railroads; Otto Osners, student pilot; Herr Seiler, mechanic; Herr Charlett, pilot...
...people gathered to witness the ceremony. Six miles of veterans lined up to do honor to their old military chief. Some of them were dressed in field grey; others were resplendent in plumed helmets and gold-braided tunics of imperial days. Gathered there, too, were many of the highest Reich authorities, from Chancellor William Marx and several of his cabinet to Marshal von Mackensen, Generals von Francois and von Ludendorff...