Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-11-18 | Page 13 | Holland Uses German Marks to Advertise

HOLLAND BOLLAND USES GERMAN MARKS MASKS TO ADV ADVERTISE nr jus US n. n f r. r 01 JUr UnI United Ml I IT Ire Staff Corre Correspondent BERLIN Nov 17 By mall mail to V V. P. P pi German P.-German German paper paper money Is being illegally exported by ear car and shiploads shiploads shiploads ship ship- loads to America Holland India and elsewhere e to b bs be used for tox advertising advertising adver er purposes Enterprising merchants In Holland Holland Hol Hol- I land for Instance wrap their their cigars in German marks marin or give a a. few lions lions' worth with ea each h purchase of ot otone one gulden guiden and so on I The Berlin pollee have arrested several Polish Polish tradesmen who have I been bu buying grea great masses of ot Ger German German Ger Ger- man paper money of small denomination nation from Berlin I banks s a a and shipping shipping ship ship- lr ping rn th them m in trunks k and boxes to th the Dutch border I Upon orders of Berlin police customs customs cus cus- toms officials at the border bolder confiscated con confiscated pounds of this money The accused declare th they y were able to buy up several billions' billions worth of ot mark notes which arenow are aro aronow now wor worth h three times as much as aB actual waste paper as their face I Value Talus in marks These marks though of ot no value alue In Germany o are not permitted to be exported cd as waste as-waste waste paper though itis it itIs itis is pointed out this this' can do no harm for the he small notes have haye no value here In fact it is asserted such elimination of worthless money I helps stabilize the mark bringing mark bringing I in good gulden dollars and pounds Instead of returning worthless paI paper paper pa- pa paI I per to the in Berlin One storekeeper in Amsterdam I and another in Ro Rotterdam have hav papered papered papered pa pa- their stores with small not notes s 8 drawing great crowds crowd of curious visitors visitors- many of whom buy while looking at the curious sight From Holland it is said many shiploads of paper marks of ot small denominations denominations denominations have been shipped to India and ard America where they are similarly simi lally darly used to attract attention I