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Show 1 THE NEW KAISER OF GERMANY Being th Chronicle of Hugo Slinnes, m Told by Milton Bronner in Series of Six Article After I Firt-nand Study of His Enterprises. i I ' . I By MILTON SRONNER Curapoan Manager far N. I. A. Sondes. HKHI.IN. May ore day the raptaln of a Hwodlsh paeaena-er veaaal pi vine; between be-tween Sweden and Uermanr aald to a Oorman passenger: "Who la that poor aeaalrk fallow? lie looaa aa If ha mlht die before ho landed In Hweden." Ho may bo very III." said the paaarn-ier. paaarn-ier. "but. he won't dlo of ll. w hat a mora ho will probably buy a hunk of Mwoden aa loan aa ho landa and nee had menaery. A total mlareader af popular and political peyrholoiry, ho had choaen tha offenatve namea for his ahlua thinking think-ing of the, men who bore them aa peraona whom (Germany once Idolised and Inias-Inlnc Inias-Inlnc the people atlll did ao. When he realised his error. It was too late. But that la about tha only miatuka that ran be charged up to Htinnoa in the shipping ship-ping game. ma of hta greateet strokes haa been 10 plan two fleeie of ehipe. line la to constat of W.OOo-lonnera and tho other of loou-tonners. Hie eaperto have study of Ruaaia. They are exp.-rla tin Kuaala. Only rerentlyejhe director of this department de-partment returned from a personal lsit and reported toTils chief that eight yeais of war. blockade and neglect have put Huaaian hitrbors into a terrible state. The big freight ships that America and Kng. land have will , probably not be able to negotiate thoao harbora. Hut where they fali. the Htlnnea lOoo-tnnnrra will glide In like ducka on a mill pond, tto will the Htlnnea tankero built at Kiel. Already Htlnnea' ahlpa are busy at work feeding other branrbea of the Mtlnne. anviafi mm mai ijiw-inn ampa arj ngi only much rhrapr than tha titanic vi-tw-la, ar not only run mr economl-rally, hut tun for ton will partial aarn more money and iv kxMt'r aerv.ee than lha huge flu,. tins' hutela. i HA EVE OH ROtfttA. 1 Tha Htlnnra S0J0-ton M are bina; bullt for a aprclflc put po Htttinta. Ilk ery wideawake irnin buelnewi man. haa hie eyra on Run la. Horn Hay and 1 not very lone; off h export that 1m-tnenaa 1m-tnenaa country to h (tpeniMl one mora to th rommerc of th world. With the al-moM al-moM totHl hreHkdown nn1 ruin of th Ituxfilatn rtlwaye. the main mean of -tranaport of kooiIk to and from KuMfiiH I foi- mnir veant will ha hv a:t. htmnfi ibftti an t'lttlr drparimt-nt of hta e&ecutlve branch hara In Berlin devoted to th bulnena. They hrlng Iron era from Hwa-den Hwa-den and ttmiv-r for Finland. Thua they fetrh raw ntaterll for Stnnea blant fur-nacru fur-nacru utid 8tlnnM' pnpar, pulp and cellulose cellu-lose nillla. And they rnrrv l.vk to Hwe-dtn Hwe-dtn and Klnland. front Htlnnea' ntlln. tome of tha manufactured mat en at thou .ountrten ao badly need. Aa they ply leitck and forth. thea vevaelN alo imw another Intereatlng art of Htinnea" uhlpa. Thene are mere amikn, but they carry tha Htlnrea hoime flitu and thry are tn-RMajed tn-RMajed In tha very Important Job of help-litK help-litK to feed (iermany. The) are th Htlnnea herring fleet. U'opynfht. VJ22.. S. K. A. Service. Inc.) Ktlnnen" control of many German newe-paiiers newe-paiiers and hla aucceaaful comhlnatlona even tn thin field are &nld by Uronner In hln next article. a reviving cup of ntaca rone- nim, j the way, ha ! a ahtp owner hlmaelf. He may be a atilp owner. aald thai raptaln. " but he look like a -Jandaman in1 he ta certainly a wd nun." Tha hero of thia Utile ane-diie ''" many greateat buatneaa man-Hugo Htlnnea. The Hwede waa abaolutety ccu. rale Htlnnea la a landaman and a hart tailor, but lha ihtrat for ehtpn ta In hie blood and he ta rapidly coming to the fore a a new force in Herman y onra mora m pending, and reviving mercantile marine. ma-rine. OWN RIVE CRAFT. LrOng ago he waa one of the chief own-era own-era of Herman river craft. In lact, the Htlnnea family haa been aaeovlated with thta buatneaa fr about two ceinurlee. And however wtdeepread nave become the Intereata of Hugo Htlnnea. he haa never forgotten the family fnrtunea were atartrU by transporting thlnga on Herman rlvtjra. If you alt on a fine May morning on th terrac of a Ireatn hotel and gianre at the Kibe river below, your att.ntmn will eoon ba attracted to a big aturdy tug pulling up a atream a li-r.g line of tmigea. each heavily laden with coal. Kumwhere you will aee the magic name "Hiltmea." M . tr go over to Coblem where a few or our donghboe are atlll keeping watch on the Khine and the Meelle rtvere and once more you will aea aieamera, luga and bargee bearing the Htlnnea name. Thia. in aplte of the fact that under the pence treatv a laige number of Herman river craft were aurrendered to I ranee and Belgium. UY OCEAN tHIPPINa. Hut Important and money making a thea river lines ar for Htinnea. he lung ago began to turn hla attention lo the greater poaalbllltlea of ocean traffic- l'1""" lug tha tirat half of lha v.ar he bought a large block of atok In the Uermun Kit at African and the Wonmnn linea. l-ai-i he obtained a big uterMt lit die leut he VVerft, a concern of Hamburg which bullda ehtpa. Another which fell Into hla all-embracing net waa tha Hamburg Vr-kehr'a Vr-kehr'a corporation, which la not only In-tereeted In-tereeted tn ahtpplng but owna hotela In Hamburg. Herlm nd l-aiikfurt on the Main. Furthermore It la intereated In Herman Seaald reaorta like Travemunde and haa veaaele that carry eacuraioniata there. At Klenaburg Htinnea Waa a company com-pany whose swift small ahlpa ply the Halilc. Within the paat two years he formed the Hugo Htinnea Itnea and thia new concern con-cern waa the cause of one of the deepest humiliation of hla buatneaa career. Stlnnea owned a considerable block of t.w k In the once great Hamburg-American Hieitinship company and waa made a director. Tha concern, beginning lo re-cupfuie re-cupfuie from ihe paralysta cauaed by the and the lo.a of lia biggest and bei ampa, wax piepo-iring to leaume a.'tlv. Mtonmihlp aeiMCe l'tfn Ititmourg i'd Mouth America. The latier has always iteen a favorite field for Herman exploitation exploi-tation aint Herman bustneai (Inns have man frtenda there. TINNCt l HUMILIATED. Imagine the surprise of the managing dltecturs. therefore, when one fine morning morn-ing as I hey sipped their coffee and pe-i pe-i used the Hamburg papers, their eyes were claimed b a tlanng advertiaement in which the Hugo Himnea lines announced an-nounced the Inauguration of a regular aeitlte between iiantbyig and Bueno lAtrrs. i Kor a fellow director to steal a march mii them hke thai wasn't c oitsiun eJ "clubby." Thre was an immediate con c.ve and Htinnea. the bllltoi.atre In Herman Her-man marks, waa flung out on his ear. Not. of course, literally and physical. y Hut hia name teased to adorn the board of directors of the Hupag. aa the great shipping company ta known all over Herman Htinnea' retort waa two-fold he advert' sd and pushed hta Kouth American lines more than ever and he immediately took some of hla ready caah nd invested In the North Herman l.loyd Ihe gnat Kiemen rival of Hamburg. It waa In connection with hta shipping Interest that Htlnuee got aome of th publicity be ao much shuna and hates. There were built for him three new 1? tMMj-ton ahlpa Ht times decided to name l hem l.udendorff. ' Hmdenbuig and Tir-pitt. Tir-pitt. Aa representatives of Herman were then conferring with the allies, the I Utter took this action of Htlnnea as a ' good atn that Hermany waa still kaiser-1 kaiser-1 1st. militarist and unrepentant. Inside 1 Hermany many of the socialist leaders vent after Htlnnes with a snarp stick. The whols furors surprised him 1m- |