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Show BANK OF GERMANY IN VERY HEM PITHI low Metal Stoek and Great Demands De-mands Given as Reasons 1 for Advances. BF.RI.IN Nov. s 'Die rate of discount of the Imperial Bank of Germany as r:ilsed toda from 5 to S' per cent. Pres-Ident Pres-Ident Koch In proposing :iti liirreaae in the discount rate to the central committee commit-tee of Hie Imperial bank. iald emphasis on the bank's weak stat.is which, he said, was much worse thin It v.. ;t year ago. bills in portfolio iidnn 169,250,000 more whereas the metal stock was the lowest In four vi-.'its Tills :i i 1 1 I !'Milnrl trui of the gold BUPply Metnl Stock Is Low. While the movemenl of gold recently hail b-.-n almbSt WhOllj lai kliiK. he said, ht 111 the rat- nf foreign .-Xi hange were mil -iartu til. il l i.- t i n il tl t'i ;-rman- still the year-end requirements were iti-proaching iti-proaching and unusual demands on th bank must be met owing to the gTeat prosperity of the country and actlvlt) In all branches nf Drcxluctlon Failure to Sell Bills. President Ettoch referred to the attempt ..I tin- InipfiUil bank I" s-ll lrcnsur "hills In the open market last Friday, which almost wholly failed, not r ithstaiidlng the sharp advance In the private rates of dls-( dls-( i r.t in consequence Of this one or two of the members of th- committee thought an adance In the bank rate might be pi st polled b it the committee by a decisive de-cisive majorltj voted the Increase. May Be Another. Well-informed authorities regard a fur- thei' i. nuking no of the official rate as probable In December unless today's ad-vtnee ad-vtnee has a marked effect In strengthening strength-ening the hank's status. |