GERMAN SCANDALS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 24, 23 October 1920, Page 9

GERMAN SCANDALS

EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS MARKS SQUANDERED BY THE MILLION By Telegraph-tress Associatlon-Coryrisht (Rec. October '22, 9.30. p.m!) London, October 21. The. "Daily Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent says that there. have- been revelations of an extraordinary series of financial and administrative scandals in Germany. The police arrested two former Government officials, Boehuior and Haehn, for frauds in connection with import and export permits involving millions of mails. Another Government official has been relieved of his post. He took awny SOO.OOO marks of .taxes paid into his department with- documents connected with the taxation, so the polite are powerless. The Government recently bought 25,000,000 marks worth of ammunition and sold it a fortnight later for 200.000 marks. Later thev bought material from another iirm for 35,000,000 marks. _ ' 'the newspapers allege that Hie oil and fat department squandered 2,000,000.000 marks, also that frauds in connection with the export of wood and benzine involve 50,000,000 marks The 1 trade tn forged permits is flourishing all over the .country. 'Nothing has been done in regard to tho charges against the German Daimler Company for avoiding payment of millions of'marks in taxes.—A us-N.J!. Cable Assn.