The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
SHINES DESCRIBED AS EARNEST, ALSO DANGEROUS PATRIOT
Multi Millionaire Is Sort ot Golden Rule Hun When German Labor Is
 Involved

London, April 2.-Hugo Shines gen eralissmo of German industry, recently accused of plotting strike of several hundred thousand workers in the Ruhr | district to make more difficult the al lied occupation Of Dusseldorf Duisburg and Ruhrort, is referred te by the Berlin 1 correspondent of the Times as an ear nest and dangerous patriot."
 Stinnes, multi-millionaire member of the Reichstag, has put through some of
 the greatest financial deals of his eareer 1 since the armistice. He has been called
 a relentlessly efficient; human catcu, lating machine" It has been said ths he would sacrifice every mark of his
 er orm ous fortune to bring back the mon srchy
 Mine owner and coal merchant ship owner land proprietor. head of a grea. chain of newspapers, proprietor of the l finest hotel in Berlin, trader in oils pa per, hides, jute, peat and man ufactured
 wares of many kinds, Shines. the Times correspondent says, lis today the wealth
 fest, most influential, best known and l at the same time the least well-knowr
 man in Germany"
 I Publicity and notoriety are alien to him, it is stated and he prefers to re. main behind the curtains in the Reich stag, permitting his henchmen and lieut. enants to do the talking while he pulls
 the strings.
 There is nothing in his appearance te
 hetray the man of genius says the cor respondent Just 50 years old of med ium height and sturdily built with black hair and beard that show up strongly against rather sallow complexion, Hugo 1 Shines is an inconspicuous figure as he slips in and out of the Adlon hotel his bowler hat tilted slightly on one side,
 one hand in his pocket and one or tive
 secretaries following hard on the heels 1 of their chief in his well-worn black coa
 and black tie. He stops to speak to nc I one He has no time for small talk in | the lounge with other rYasts. FFe is 2
 relent1esly efficient. cool. human cal. l culating machine.
 were laid by the present Shines grand 1 father and increased by his father. The 1 youth was seint to a gymnasium and | later worked as a miner and attended 1 the School of Mines in Berlin. Embark l ing in business for himself at the age of
 2J. his remarkable career began H; l went with success into the coal and iron trade, becoming prominent figure
 among the magnates of Rhenish West.
 phalia and branched out into the devel.
 opment of tramways and electric power 1 in the coal fields.
 But his real great spring to fortune l says the Times. "ce-.a with tho r-ee' war. Ills fortune before the war was
 estimated at 4e,oo0-00o gold marks. Whai | 1t is now he probably could not say him.
 self-possibly 1,ooo0oo.ooo marks News
 papers now owned by Shines are said 1 to number at least SO
 People are eagerly asking with what ultimate object all this colossal wealth
 is being necessarily piled up, says the l l ines correspondent Does his presen
 association with and finsncir~ of the
 volkspartie mean that Shines is prepar.
 ing to bring back the monarchy?
 "Stinnes, concluded the correspondent
 referring to the alleged truculent con | duct of the financier at the Brussels fl
 naucial conference. "has measured h'-n
 self once with the allies and received .
 sevre snubbing. He is not likely to rist
 a second similar rebuff. Nor is he likely ! to forget Let the allies in their turI ! remember that witness his unconciliat l ing manner of the conference table, h'
 is an earnest and dangerous patriot