GERMAN MILLIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1923, Page 4

GERMAN MILLIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

(By Arthur .Mills, ivlio has just returned from a tour of the South American .Republics). LONDON, May 17. In South America the Gormans are laughing. You will see them in the grill-room of Plaza, the most expensive hotel in Buenos Aires, where they have their suites. Later they forgather at the Armenonville, the fashionable dance club. They drink champagne till n dull Hush tinges the duel scars on their checks, and they laugh. It is funny from their point of view; all this fuss in Huropc about reparation-: France putting back brick by brick the houses on her ravaged lands and expei ting Germany to help; France beating drums and blowing bugles up and down the Ruhr and saving, "|j' yon won’t pay we'll make you” : when all the time, as everybody knows, the money is not in Germany at all—it is in South America. Business nun in that country say that it was in 1918 Germany first farted to transfer her capital to South America, when she already saw that she had lost the war. Two years later when questions about war debts became awkward-, she transferred a great d.-al more.

To-day. ei a rough estimate, the Germans have CoO,01)0,090 ill Buenos Aiivs. !_■"),Of 10,000 in Chile, and largo amounts distributed among the other Republics. it is all very cunningly done. For example, in Buenos Aires the Germans have only 12 companies registered under their own mimes—an insignilicnlit number ecinna.red with the lit) registered British companies.

Bui in locate Gorman capital one he. lo search deeper than registered list-., Tiv Germans have converted their I' .lilies into Argentine conc,■ ih -. nun!, counts f,,r llitle : the moitev goes the same way.

Th,. shipping In Ruonus Aires Harbour must he as rich in value ol nter••haiidise as any in ihe world. A lew weeks ago the Germans had Ihe second Hag in the port. Think what this means, tor wars, bv fair means and foul, German; endeavoured to cripple the merchant service of Great Britain. Tn punishment she was ordered to surrender all her own shipping except what was necessary for her immediate ■lew!.. Three years later she has lying • ilf ihe wharves of Buenos Aires the sen mi nm-t powerful merchant fleet of any country. lingo Stinnes’s name is a power in Argentina. Stories of German prosperity e'Hio from all sides. No more important lino exists in Buenos Aires than the Argentine Iron and Steel Gompany, who have supplied halt the Imi! k»g material of the city. Their turnover in J 922 exceeded 2J millions sterling. Tiii.- huge old-established concern admit - lively that il now has a serious com pot i; n,r to face. Two years ago Herr Thys cii, of the liuhr, started a rival company. To-day •‘Thyssen” hr;:! Hog hoards may he seen all over Buenos Aires. In ( bile 1 heard the same tale with regard to the nitrate industry of the count ry. Before leaving Argeiiiinn 1 took a drivi- through lielgraiio. the German oniony out •■hie Buenos Aires. The German- are building themselves palaces in t'ioigruno u liii'li an Argentine Millionaire might envy. As I looked at liie-e great huihiiogs rising 'tune upon stone my mind went hack in a lit lie village on ihe Ai-ue in Sep! ember |:,|| where, ami,' the smouldering ruins of their two-roomed !io'ii '. an old French peasant and his iviie lay dead.

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