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Show oo HUN 'MONEY' PRESSES HUMMING FULL SPEED BERLIN, May 13. Germany's paper pa-per money now in circulation amounts to 60,000,000,000 marks, and Is increasing in-creasing by 1,000,000,000 marks a week, declared August Mueller, former for-mer minister of economics. Th nrintlner of banknotes Is tho only flourishing industry In Germany today, he writes In an artlclo in the Abendblatt He attributes this actlv- , ity In printing of money to govern- t mont subsidies, undertaken in a vain j effort to reduce the prices of food and I nlso to tho continual increasing of sal- arles "to an absurdly growing officialdom, official-dom, who find next day they aro no better off, owing to the overnight decline de-cline of the buying power of tho paper Gormany's indebtedness, says Herr Muoller, is now about 230,000,000,000 marks. This, ho adds, Is, perhaps, redeemable re-deemable at the present low rate of tho mark, but never if it recover even half its former value. Horr Mueller is unablo to seo a remedy rem-edy except In Increasing production, which, ho says, seems to preoccupy tho present rulers of Germany less than tho anxiety to keep In office. |