Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-12
SAYS GERMANY WILL
NOT Be DICTATED TO
Finance Minister Declares Great
Economic Questions Cannot
be Solved That Way.

epce TO he dictated 10. Dr. Wirth the
Minister Of Finance, declared In speech
10 the Bremen Chamberof Commerce
today. Great economic questions could
not be solved In that way. he added.
we are prepared 20 accomplish all
We can" continued DIR. Wirth. be-
cause we feel under n moral obligation
rs assist IN reconstruction. and we will
make reparation proposals of ours IN
London.
'The newspaper reports on this aub-
tect arc Incorrect our offer viii not
ba n small one The nation must learn
10 realize that what we Hhall offer can
not be extracted from the national
wealth but must be produced ~ work.
work vill have - be organized IN
great scale and what We Offer must
hc made good"
Rrealau Feb Paul roehe rresi
dent ~ the Rcichstag and publisher Of
the prceIau VoIHwarht urges Germany.
u an editorial appearing IN his raper
Yesterday 70 refuse 20 comply with the
parfa rcpara tioua demands. thereby per-
nittluE The occupation Of tho Huhr dis
/ tri,.t hv the Entente. which. he says
| would ho compelled 20 attempt tho op-
/ grafton - the mines.
/ IT. declares that the miners would
+ then refusc g. work and the coal pro-
1 du,iian would fall off 20 such an cx-
/ tcu, ,hat the Entente would abandon
4 its demands and submit reasonable
conditions.
Unemployment viii hc widespread II
the present plan il agreed TO- Herr
/ l.ocbc believes tax receipts Will decline
and il will not loo possible for the En-
tcr,c to collect its indemnities.
Tho withdrawal of the name Of Mr..
Thompson is of more than passing sig
/ nificancc. AR Thompson Is follower
| Of ". I BRYAN his selection in fact.
Tor committeeman from Nebraska. Il
was taken 70 mean that Mr.. BRYAN at
least is not in sympathy with the
| scheme 20 gain control Of the committee
FOR Mr. McAdoo
Paris. Feb I2-Louis Ioucheur. who
- Minister ~ the Liberated Regions
assisted Premier Briand and the other
rnorn hers OF the Allied Supreme Council
IN fixing The German reparations. ex-
plained 10 Tho Associated Press yester.
dav his definition Of Germany's pay.
meuts on her exports.
1T seems that the terms OF the va
riahlo annuity of u per cent on ex'
ports Is impcrfectly understood abroad. :
ha SAID. 1t never has been the ques
ton 10 create. or ohige Germany I,
create. a tax upon exports. What wa
sought was 10 Establish Germany
capacity for payment. Therefore, W.
divided the annuity into two parts, on
nxcd which is an irredueihle minimum
which has been established upon zig
ures close To. although below. thos
prepared by the American experts dur
ing the Peace Conference. which alway
have been regarded as the least Ger
many must pay The second part O
the annuity. called the variable. is I
be calculated at the close Of each ST
months period by taking Il per cen
of the total exports during the 81
months
No tax was 10 be laid upon an
specific export nor were exports TO tn
different countries taken into eonsid
Grafton. said NJ Ioucheur II wa
! simply a percentage on the total figure
Of the German nations foreign sale
In word. it is a method of calct
f lating the annuity upon Germany's ecC
q nomic development" NJ Iouchem al
< serted All the experts during tl
5 Peace Conference in 1919 were agree
$ that payment OF an indemnity heyor
a a certain minimum must be closely r
lated to the economic expansion Of Ciel
# many. and declared that one OF II
a best indices was the volume Of export
q TO summarize. it is not tax upon a.
E. norris. il is "A simple means of calct
Il lation Any other interpretation give
5 by the German pres>is misleading