The New York herald., 1921-07-09

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of the SHINES industries.
arrived here just before April ! to be-
come Stinnes's general manager in
America and see to 1t that his CHIEF 8
orders for American coal received inn
mediate attention. Mr.. Bartling now is
in London with Herr SHINES.
SHINES Agents Active Here.
One of Hollensen's representatives de-
plored the fact that 1t was the SHINES
(and ergo the Hollensen) policy not to
talk to newspaper men not in the en-
ploy of SHINES. He owns about sixty
newspapers in Germany and Denmark'
| Therefore Mr. Hollensen refused to dis
cuss the coming of his employer. But 1t
was learned from source entirely
familiar with the facts that the Beaver
street Office is doing triple service just
! at present.
First of all. 1t Is doing what 1t can In
a business way to prepare the way Tor
the masters coming. In the second
place, it Is the point Of issue from which
an increasing stream of SHINES propa-
ganda Is. flowing. 1t is the inspiration
centre for the SHINES takers.
! Then, the Beaver street offices are
doing duty as Stinnes's American INTEL
ligence headquarters. IT was estimated
by persons In position to know that as
many as fifty cablegrams Gall in code. OF
course) have been exchanged between
the big German and his American offices
in single day. And on the same
authority 1t is said that SHINES mas at
lease 100 economic observers IN America
reporting daily by telegraph to Beaver
street. He is credited with having
we'll organized lobby and observation
point In Washington. and 1t Is entirely
conceivable that he has His observers
have been chosen from the old imperial
army intelligence corps. :.
SHINES Is the most powerful man sit
ting in the National Advisory Economic
Council in Berlin. AS matter of fact
the council is his own invention. Brieny
1t supposedly amounts to the German
Governments control over German pusi-
ness. It is composed OF business men
representing the country's most power
| full economic interests. Just at present
1. is a question whether the elected Gov
ernment controls the council or whether
the council bosses the elected Govern
ment Stinness programme would nave
the elected Government wholly subser-
Went to the council. The council plans
to do more than merely guide business
It proposes to direct 1t by virtue of its
control of business SHINES Is the most
powerful factor in the council, for the
simple reason that more than so per
cent. of the business represented by the
council is controlled by him.
The council has its listening post here
in New York at 80 Cortlandt street. ir
the offices of the American Hansa Cor
poration. G. Won Seebeck. young. pro-
| pressive German with every physical
evidence of culture about him, Is the
local director of the corporation and, In
his dual capacity, makes periodic re-
ports of local commercial and financial
conditions to the council.
On April /. 1921. SHINES was called
before the board Of directors of the
Hamburg American Line and asked why
he, as director of that line. had set W
competitive ocean freight traffic with
South America. SHINES told the direc-
tors that he purposed starting an inde.
pendent South American trade with nine
huge freighters. All of these freighters
he built himself at his own yards In
Bremen. One he named the Hindenburg
another the Won Tirpitz Because he sc
insisted upon perpetuating the names OF
the defunct apostles Of junker hate his
workmen. giving three rousing cheers
for Karl Marx. struck.
The arrogant SHINES. giving an ex-
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can do when riled. told them to continue
striking and starve to death In the
process ifs need be. He simply hired
hungrier men. Presently the strikers in
| formed him that they and victory were
his. SHINES, announcing that he was
about to lay the kecls of two more ships
and call them the Boche and the Hun.
reduced wages and took the strikers
back.
Expulsion an Incentive.
But to get back to the Hamburg
American squabble. SHINES told his fell
low directors that II was his and not
| their affair. There was only one thing
left for them to do. They did II.
| SHINES was expelled from the director
ate.
Almost Immediately there began a
feud between Franz Urbig, vice-chair-
man of the Hamburg-American Line,
and SHINES. Next to SHINES, Urbig
unquestionably Is the richest and most
influential individual in Germany. But
Urbig and his banks have not the COM
prehensive grasp on industry that
SHINES has.
! The dismissal from the Hamburg
American directorate. It is now learned.
gave SHINES the only incentive to fight
the Hamburg-American he needed. Con-
fldent he can overwhelm 1t by under
bidding 1t and by controlling its sources
| OF revenue, he Is building fleet Of
huge passenger carriers.
That SHINES contemplates inaugural
| ing passenger service as well as freight
between New York and the German
Hanseatic ports is taken for granted.
II he had only the old Hamburg-Amer-
lean interests to fight. his chances Of
victory would be rosy. But he must
affiliate himself with American capital
as competent as that represented by
the Hartman outfit-the United Amer
lean Lines, or more specifically. the
American Trade and Commerce Cor
poration.
Now that peace between Germany and
America Is an official thing there Is
every likelihood that Richard O. Wag-
ner and his American associates in the
control of the old American Trans
atlantic Company and the Foreign
Transport and Mercantile Corporation
will institute suit In the United States
courts for the recovery of the seven
ships taken from those corporations
by the Alien Property Custodian when
America entered the war. The ships
we're seized on the ground that they
were owned by German shipping in
terests controlled by SHINES. Wagner.
native OF Milwaukee,. but the son
of German named Wagennecht in
sisted that the owners Of his ships were
not Germans.
HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE.