SECRET OF THE WAR
PLOT TO CRIPPLE BRITAIN.
GERMANY’S /OFFER TO AMERICA.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Reeeive4 April 2fl, 11.20 p.m.
New York, April 28. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in honor of Mr. Charles Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, it was revealed that Germany offered Mr. Schwab a bribe of 190,000,000 dollars if he would break his contracts with Lord Kitchener for the supply of war munitions, which the Allies sorely needed to steam the German advance.
Britain was cognisant of the German manoeuvres, and offered Mr. Schwab 150,000,000 dollars for the Bethlehem plants, or more than five times their capital value. Mr. Schwab declared he did not desire to sell, but answering the Germans he said there was not sufficient money in Germany to buy off the Bethlehem Company until its ob- • ligations to the British were fulfilled-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1921, Page 5
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