New-York tribune., 1921-09-04


which l have every reason to believe exact:
Hamburger Hof Hotel Ham
burg, pre-war values (goldl Sl,300,000
Rathaus Hotel, Hamburg. 100000
Hotel Atlantic, Hamburg. 13,000,000
Different buildings and plots
in Hamburg. ............. 100000
Houses in Hamburg, pre-war
value .................. 100000
Electric Works in Essen
on-the-Ruhr ............ 12o,ooo0oo
Properties in German Lux
sst;npischen zechen in Es-
sen ....................2 100000 to 80, 900
properties pre-war value.12, 900 to 100000
Dye factories and plants at
Elberfed ............. go 900 900 to 80 900, 900
This does not include the printing plants
which he has recently bought in Austria, Ger
many and Sweden, as well as in Denmark. 1t
does not include any of his numerous mines
and coal properties nor any of the various in
dustrial concerns where he holds the COM
manding interest. 1t does not take into
count the fact that he is able to export the pro-
auction of his own materials when they
are finished, such rails, rolling stock,
bridges, machines, engines and agricultural
implements, through his own Offices, so that
he escapes any expenses connected with dis
posing of them in foreign countries This list
does not mention the wharves in Landshfona,
in Sweden, called Gresundsvarvet which,
though ostensibly the property of a Swedish
concern, belong entirely to him. and where a
fleet which is to be as large as the pre-war fleet
of the Hamburg American Line is being con-
structed. 1t does not speak Of the practical
nonopoly of printing paper which SHINES has
captured and it is silent on the fact that,
thanks to the numerous relations he has estab-
I~J oAy o,c L. l. .L1-
his yearly reports of the different commercial
and industrial enterprises belonging to him to
conceal the real value of these concerns.
Hugo SHINES all through his financial and
political career has chung faithfully to one sys-
tem--that of seeking and finding connections
capable of furthering his schemes of COM
'n1ercial world domination in every country.
All his managers, sub-managers and directors
of various enterprises not only financial
or industrial figures like himself, but also peo-
pie occupying commanding governmental posi-
tions. Having before the war, all through the
time it lasted and since the conclusion of peace
put all the resources of his immense organiza-
ton at the service of the German government,
he expected this same government to put at his
disposal in return for his services it's best men.
He succeeded SO well in this enterprise that all
the commercial atCacheS appointed by the
German government abroad are agents for
SHINES, and also doing secret service, spying
for hird. AS fact. he represents to-day the
whole German secret intelligence service. Few
people suspect the apparently inoffensive look
ing clerks whom he employs in different ca
pacities to be spies.
Until the war SHINES had offices in New
York under his own name, but these, together
with his property, were confscated by the
United States government when hostilities
broke out and put under the control Of the
Alien Custodian Office. Once, when talking
about it. SHINES expressed to me his disgust
at the want of comprehension of the German
government, which, in his opinion, during the
first months of the war should have worked
toward obtaining large loans in the United
States.
''Ihis would have effectuay prevented
America from joining our enemies" he said
because if she had lent us large sums of
money she would have upheld us against the
Allies for fear of losing her investments"
And the subjectwas always sore one with him.
1t must here be added that in Sweden and
Denmark SHINES is practically the master of
all he surveys. Banks, government, official
rolice, are entirely under his control. 1t
was he who in the beginning of the war, hit
upon the brilliant idea of engaging in the
German secret service Swedish detectives of