ANGRY GERMANS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3462, 16 April 1920, Page 6

ANGRY GERMANS.

Bj[*}RLL\', April 14.

'J,‘llcl'e xverc tunxultuous scenes on the Bourse on the announcenient by the Government that" shares. in companies in. Entente countries which it was re- ’ quired should be snrrenflered under the E Peace Treaty were to be taken over at ‘the quotations of Jzuiuary 10th. Dealers declared that the action was socialisation by trickery, and hotly dcnouneed the Government. The agitation caused .suspensi(ln of :bu'sine’,Ss, and the Bourses of Hamburg, andp Frankfort closed in Sympathy. The Stock Exchange rioters de-I‘ molished the furniture and finally the‘ Exchange had to be closed, owing to! the leakage of the GoVerllnlent’s in-. tention to coirfiseate German holdings.’ in concerns establishecl on Allied terri-f tory, with a view to surrendering the] same shares to the Allies, not at cur-I rent prices, -but at those ruling in! January, before the rises roceurreduf Some .<h:lres have quadrupled in value since. The difl'c-renee nlc-ans ruin to the speculators eonee:'nE’(l, who allege that their extensive operations have been conducted with "Government 0011-: mvnnce. - Hoelz suddenly reappeared at Paluen. Incon<lial'y detaelnnents V terroriscdl manufaeturexs and. ‘business firms.

Hoelz is exacting a million marks ran-

Sonm to save fac’col'ies.