Evening star., 1923-02-21
BY LA MARaUIsE DE FONTENOY.

BY LA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
August Tyssen has been described
in a number of newspapers on this
side Of the Atlantic as the German
Rockefeller This is a distinct re-
f1ection on the good name of an
American, one who has contributed
to the welfare of mankind, and to
philanthropic causes of every sort. d
greater amount of his enormous
wealth than all his fellow multi
millionaires put together. Rookie
feller has never been proven guilty
by his own ledgers and books OF
having falsified all the sworn docu-
ments which he furnished to his own
government and to foreign powers.
and of having consistently cheated
the Berlin treasury with the object
of throwing the main burden of tax
alton upon his poorer fellow citizens,
for his own benefit. 1t may be- re-
called that when the French invaded
the Ruhr district the German iron
and steel magnates were chiefly con-
cerned in placing their books and
ledgers beyond the reach of the
French army of occupation. Several
special trainloads of these books and
ledgers were conveyed to Hamburg
and to Berlin in safety. But at least
half of them were left behind, and
which should be widely known on
this side of the water.
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1t is needless to go here into any
detailed figures. The books go to
show that the statistics furnished by
SHINES, and by their fellow iron and
coal magnates of the Rhine region
were completely false and that the
production was double, and even
treble, the amount sworn to by them
and on which they were taxed for
that for the twelve months ending
December 81, 1922, the German pro-
duction of steel was 100000 tons,
as compared with 100000 tons in
1913, prior to the great war. This
was during q period when the Brit
tsh steel works were only producing
SO per cent of their capacity and the
French works even much less
namely. 4s per cent. Indeed, the
and of their fellow magnates show
that, far from being checked or
hampered in their industrial output,
their production and consequently
their profits were even much great
er, than before the war, and that of
all European countries Germany. at
any rate, as far as the Industrial
magnates were concerned, had at
tanned the highest. degree of pros
perity.
These revelations have proved an
eye-opener to those friends of Ger
many in foreign countries-even i'm
England and in the United States
who were under the erroneous inn
preston that Teuton industries had
been ruined by the demands made
upon the German treasury for the
money. due to France, Belgium and
the other powers of the entente. un-
der the head Of reparation for the
terrible destruction and devastation
which they had wrought during the
great war in the countries which they
had invaded
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The disclosures have also created a
profound impression upon the Ger
man masses. and have tended to still
further exasperate them against their
prohteers and multi-millionaires who
have hatly refused to subscribe to any
German national loan, or to pay what.
was due by them to the treasury at
Berlin under the head of taxation.
Tyssen. SHINES and their associates
have thus been discovered cheating
the powers of the entente. their own
national treasury and their own less