GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1922, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

ICSIItAI.IAN AND N.Z. OABLK ASSOCIATION. THE GERMAN' WAV. (Received lids day at 10.30 n.m 1 BERLIN. Oct 15'. The Reichsbnnk contradicts the American I'ress statement that Americans tost OGO million dollars through the. collapse of the mark. Nevertheless the “Bergswerks Zeitung” published in Essen declares that through, the colInpod of currency, Germany extracted from, foreigners ten times more than she had paid in cash reparations.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION. (Received this day sit 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Oct 15. Leipzig Appeal Court in an important compensation appeal, decided that though theoretically paper marks and .gold marks were equal in the slight of the law they were unequal economically and Courts of Justice must intervene creatively to make transactions fair and even and remodel contracts which, literally carried out, would cause heavy loses through depreciation of paper marks. ThfJ decision is characterised as a final blow to the paper mark currency. It ATHENA IT MURDER. (Received Ihis day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, Oct 14. The Rathenau murder trial lias ended. Teehow, senior was sentenced to fifteen years, Guenther to eight years, Sneidrig and von Sirlmon to live years, TcchoHv junior to four years, Tillesen to three years, Schuett Diestol to two months. The others were acquitted.