New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
SHINES Forms Austrian Tr,,st
AS Allies Consider Debt Delav
German Industrial King Buys Great Iron and s,es,
Interests and Awaits Lifting OF War
Burden by Ambassadors

respects Hugo SHINES. who sssr
be attempting to swallow aus,r,. y
least along metallurgical lines ;s r..
many. He is the richest and -.
powerful single individual in Cer,o..s
To recount his holdings in detail v,,,,,.
require exhaustive pages Of figure, =
volving incomprehensibl sums Viii.
translated into either marks or dill
would confuse ninety-niae- out ~ .
hundred readers Of the average nex,
paper.
In brief, SHINES owns or con.,.,.
virtually all river navigation in r..
many, which is mainly that Of ~.
Rhine, and the constant COMING az
going of countless steamers and bay,..
He owns or controls nearly all O, n.
iron, steel and coal production If -.
rich Rhine provinces. He owns bs.v.
interests in ocean steamship lines u.
owns great paper mills and 10 Cerms,
newspapers, including the Deutseb.
Allgemeine Zeitung, which sincs ~.
days of Bismarck has been the ofsc;.,
organ of the German government. IA
has recently acquired numerous papers
in Austria along with his iron and
steel purchases in that country.
SHINES Has Power With
Both Rich and Poor Classes
SHINES is listened to in Gemanr
with attention everywhere, not only in
the government but by bourgeoisie and
proletariat alike. Where Prussian
kings possessed regiments he DOS.
sesses great industries and opinion
moulding publicity organs. He buys
waterfalls in Finland, factories in
Brazil, forests in Eastern Prussia.
properties in Syria, has enormous in.
terests in Sweden and ITALY, and has
even made bold attempts since the war
TO "buy into" industrial properties in
France and England. He is reported
to have gained concessions from the
Soviets for vast stretches of timber
land in Siberia.
When Germany held Belgium SHINES
was warm advocate of the German
annexation of Belgium. The reason
was doubtless his assurance from the
imperial government of the right to
buy virtually all the Belgian mines
and iron and steel works in the event
of German victory. From the begin
ring of the German invasion the
SHINES interests controlled these Bel
gian industries and worked them con-
SANITY, to the mutual advantage Of
Hugo SHINES and the Kaiser's armies.
But Germany did not win the war, and
neither SHINES nor Germany was able
to swallow Belgium. However, the
SHINES prevoyance was there, as it is
at work to-day in Austria and else
where.
A French writer who had the oppcr.
unity recently to study the German
nagnate describes him briefly thus:
"a first sight of this man, VINO ap-
pears to be about fifty years old, pro-
iuces no distinct in preston His dress
s very ordinary. His face seems
and comes to a point with
/ short black beard which might be
allied a Van Dyke"
Stiffness" the writer says,,"is every.
where. He is sometimes seen in the
Adlon Hotel, in Berlin, where suite
If rooms is constantly reserved for
lin. He is frequently at Hamburg
and elsewhere leading 3 sor.
# wandering life. during which he
pends the night time mostly on the
ailroads travelling and accompanied
" overworked secretaries He refuses
III interviews, but provides a press
ecretary," who handles all publicity
hat connects with his name"
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