INTERNAL GERMANY.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1920, Page 1

INTERNAL GERMANY.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) THE BRITISH ATTITUDE. LONDON, Oct. 25 The “Daily News’! Berlin correspondent announces the Britisli Government has decided, in the event of the German Government’s voluntary default in the performance if peace obligations, that Britain will not adopt against individual Germans any economic financial measures of compulsion allowable under the peace treaty. German property in Britain or British colonies will not be confiscated. This decision should remove a serious obstacle lo Hie renewal of trade between Britain and Germany. GERMAN SCANDALS. LONDON, Oct. 23. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent says:—'“There have been revelations of extraordinary series of financial administrative scandals in Germany. The police have arrested two former Government officials, Boehmer and Haeliii, for frauds in connection with import and export permits, involving millions of marks. Another Government official has been relieved of his post. He took away three hundred marks of taxes paid into his Department, with the documents connected with taxation ,so the police are powerless. The Government recently bought twenty-five million marks worth of ammunition and sold it a fortnight later for two hundred thousand. Later they bought material from another firm for tliiry-five million marks. The newspapers allege that the oil fat department squandered two thousand million marks. And frauds in connection with export of wood and benzine involves fifty million marks in trade. Forged permits are flourishing all over tho country and nothing has been done . m regard to the charges against the German Daimler Company for avoiding payment of a million marks in taxes.