Show I i I r e GERMAN BRANCH OUT IN TRADE i i SCHEME Q Depreciated Money fo for r Goods Spent on Spot For Raw Materials Ti t By JOHN DE GANDT United Press Staff Correspondent pARIS lARIS tARIS Jan 6 Germany Germany ha has a started a 3 a commercial colonization of at o f eastern rn Europe and is on the way to tosu 1 su success Ope Ope- of oC the main reasons for tor sue such h success Is the difference between th tho 0 comparatively high rates of exchange O Rm among ng the group of oC Saxon Anglo-Saxon an and d Latin states and the other group o of f Germanic and nd Slavic states whose e money Is Js very depreciated This difference difference dif ference ere nee Is Isso so big that it has created a 8 kid of broad deep gulf that neither r one on both sides can cross any more Frequently the last few days das on on th the I Paris exchange market the Austrian Austria n and lad Hungarian crown the Polish Polls h stark mark the tho Serbian and the Bulgarian n Inar have not been quoted at all aU the Czecho crown was wa only worth little more than 1 cent and ind the finnish mark 2 11 cent which h J In fact that the western powers powers pow pow- ers ors no longer possess means of ex exchange ex- ex change shange with those countries BRIDGE GAP e But Germany German has established th the transition launched the necessary Y bridge between the two vo banks of oC th the e stream and thanks to th the e fall of her exchange the German marl mark t hAs hs become in the latter countries a an n easily asil negotiable money This This Is how Germany Is capturing g the he markets In fn eastern Europe where when e she offers to her old prewar clients client S all the goods they need at a fair fairly y high price for tor them but which the they y can still afford to pa pay Knowing th the e perfect organization of the German Germa n trade there Is no doubt Germany ca can n within a short time draw exclusive profit from most of oC the states around her including the Balkans Poland and HUn Hungary ry Also In exchange for the manufactured manufactured products which she will sell on ono one must not think Germany will retain re retain retain re- re tain the the- depreciated money of oC her neighbors She will employ It on the spot to buy Rumanian wheat Galician oil timber and minerals in Poland And with this raw material after having put aside at cheap price the quantities necessary to the the national consumption she will wUl not meet difficulties difficulties dif dif- to the tho surplus be beIng being be- be ing the only power In eastern Europe which has a merchant marine PROFIT TWO WAYS Thus Germany will be doing arbitrage arbitrage arbi arbi- business accumulating the normal normal normal nor nor- mal benefit made with the trade of merchandise and the profit resulting from the money traffic Owing to the powerful banking or organization organization organization or- or of oC Germany the conclusion Is that she may become the ruler of ot the money market In those countries where she can install the tho domination of Df her own money and her trade as well The day Russia reopens commercial commercial com com- mercial relations relation with Europe Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many would establish on eastern Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope th the hegemony that Immediately utter titter the war the said she must must get in the nearest possible future It Is generally believed here that It ItIs i it itIs t Is then one more reason for tor the al allied allied ala al- lied nations to avoid a German monetary monetary monetary mone mone- tary bankruptcy In order to e t the e Indispensable balance between the winner who Is menaced by his own wealth and the loser drawing profit i iut ant tut of his very ery ruin |