Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-05
GERMANY ABLE
TO PAY BIG
WARINDEMNITY
London Merchant Gives Views
on Nations Possibilities
Sound Methods Used.

LONDON. June 5.-"Germany is ca
pable Of paying the indemnity to the last
penny" said a prominent London mer-
chant who recently returned from the
land Of the Teuton, where he spent
several months.
In an interview given to a London
newspaper. in which he spoke anony-
mously, the merchant in question stated
that he convinced himself from obserTa-
tons while in Germany that the country
is recuperating with wonderful rapidity
and that the government is stable. He
stated also that reports Of unrest" in
Germany have undoubtedly kept away
many business men who might have
otherwise made secure some of the rem
nants Of their business in that couakEy
ere now.
81 visited practically all the large
towns" he said, land in none Of them
were conditions anything like what
| had been led to believe. The present
government in Germany is, in my opin-
ion, perfectly stable.
II speak of things as I saw them and
as 1 found them. 1 believe this govern
ment of Germany has the confidence Of
he people and 1t was lack of confidence
which made the Kapp government fall
ure.
food in Germany is not scarce, as we
have been led to believe, and in some in
stances the prices approximate those in
England. Further, there Is this to re-
member: The Germans are very indus
trious. and they have been putting their
back into the work Of regenerating their
country.
Agriculture has been worked TO a
! IL H~- 10y a4N,~r haF ak
Is expected to be q bumper one. Every
man, woman and child has been work
Ing hard for their harvest salvation. and
they seem likely to get it. Laborists
have seen that there is but one way to
combat the large imports of their coup-
try. and that is to produce and pro-
duce.
"They expect to reduce the imports
very considerably after this summer.
Cattle and horses are quite plentiful
Clothing is practically the only article
which is very high priced.
"In Germany today it is possible TO
get n glass Of good whisky at Cd. In
/ London the same whisky would be about
( n. Cd. Here are some figures which
| the people of this country ought to re-
member They are taken from a docu-
ment which may be regarded as anthem
/ tic. and though they are only approx
mate. they ara near enough to be re-
gsrded as fact.
IN 1914 Germany had about 2o.o0o.o00
( cnttle. Today II IS estimated that she
/ has about 100000.
1.-THE number Of goats IN Germany to-
I day is over 100000. a large increase
/ over what she had before the war. Goat
! milk Is being substituted very satisfac
/ torily for cows milk.
1.-The low value of the mark mssse
/ it possible for the visitor to make SOM
I astonishing purchases. The fact is thar
officially the Germans are living on tho
hare necessaries of life but actually they
are able to obtain anything they want
I i they have the money-and there is
( plenty of monay in Germany today.
/ sit may be that others have not had
/ the same experience as 1 have had. but
/ have come from Germany with the Arm
I conviction that the country is able to
/ nay: but they will not pay If they can
get free OF their debts to the allies"