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Show aiiic;"! ii'iS IIDMSKIII PARIS . .. . , ,. Former U. S.. Naval Officer Of-ficer Handles PaymenU , Made by Germany PARIS. July M (BrX.P.r Willi th I nited 8tate (ovemmant haa limited Ita actlvttie In th repar' tlon embrogllo to an official ob-errer, ob-errer, and, elnc th Varaalllaa treaty haa watched th problem It became more Intrlcat day Y day, there haa been a lltti vroup of Americana her for th peat four year who hay takaa anything- hot a minor part Id th vaat work of th reparation commlaeion. Thla unheralded Utile rroup con-fltute con-fltute the ataft of aocountanta with th commlaeion. and I headed hy Opera p. Auid. formerly an officer of-ficer of th United State navy, who hold tha poet of accountant (eneral. Ha la reeponalbl directly t th commlaeion for th complate-neea complate-neea aj4 eocuracy M all flnaaa.al recorda having to do with th receipt re-ceipt and disbursement of money and commodltle handed -over by Germany. Th poeltlon of Mr. Auld with th commie, Ion la entirely Individual, aa he haa ao connection with th United Htatea or any other govern- j mnt. lila etaff of about twanry Americana cornea under th aam claaalflcatlon. Th taak of th accountancy department de-partment a on of th most difficult of th commlaeion' work. To atrtke Ita dally and- monthly balance a. It muat deal with ehlpe, ilveatock. abandoned war material, rolllne atock, coal and coke, dyeatuffa and acor of other commodltlea. a well aa th actual caah payment of Oerman (old marks. .When th balance sheet haa been tallied It la necessary to render th totaja In marka, pound, franca, lire and dollar. . Th commodity valuation hav been made In nearly aril the curreacle of Kurope, aa well aa la I Sollara. CONVERTED TO OOLD. Whan currency payments ara ae, they are Immediately con-verted con-verted to (old throufh th dollar ..w,,h ro"hl ur marka quailing II. To acrountancy da-' parimant receive th New York ex. chatis rat for twenty or twenty-flv twenty-flv countrle by cable eaea day, and with the rate aa a basis, dally, weekly, and monthly parltlea between tha rarloua currncle ar Mtabllahed. At th end of each month a complete report la made, showing th amount Uermany haa paid to data, and how It haa beta distributed among th allies. Much of thla work la don by th American etaff. On compute th vmlu of coal from tha Ruhr another an-other determine th worth of tlv-Mock tlv-Mock la franca, dollara and pouoda: another reduce locomotive to marka and then to Urea, whll "an-othr "an-othr n quote ducks, gee and chlokena la dollar, (ulldera aad crowns. At th and of lttl th accountancy account-ancy department , under Mr. Auld had whipped tha mllea of fit-urea Int an Imallljtble report ahowln that Uermany had turned over to tha alllea a (rand total of l !.-OA.0. !.-OA.0. Ot thla sum t4C4.auO.00 -waa la cash; I .oo eoo n commodltlea. com-modltlea. and l.oo,oo In state pmpertlea of ceded tmtortra Th ahlp ahe bad parted with totaled to-taled two and a half million arose tons, valued at 177.OO.60. Of roll -tn( atook ah had delivered 4661 locomotive and 1 w axons, worth tW.m.fteo. Th Ilveatock Included In-cluded aJt.toa bead, exclusive ot poultry. Thla was (Ivan a valuation of t44.000.aoa. Th coal, coke and H(nUe delivered exceeded 4t.0O0.OO0 tons, worth T, 000,000. the dyeatuffa dye-atuffa totaled H.OOO'tons, valued at tlt.0O0.0O0, and th miscellaneous commodities, too numerous to classify, clas-sify, were determined to be worth IU4.000.000. . Th selection of Mr. Auld t head tha Important accountancy bureau '. vi tn repaxaiiona eommiaaloa waa mad after h had spent evral month In Paris aa assistant financial finan-cial advlaor to th peace eommiaaloa. eommia-aloa. Althouah only 41 years of ar. h had aerved a number of rears la th United tate navy and was (Ivan th taak of onanisms, th coat and financial control maintained main-tained by th navy department In about 10 larre induatrUI planta doing do-ing work for the government befor th armistice, a Wen asked to take a poet with the reparationa commission commis-sion he realgned trom th navy to accept. EVIRAL BUREAU. ' Th Interallied accountancy organisation or-ganisation now haa bureaua In Berlin, Ber-lin, Kasen, Wwabaden, Budapest and Upper Bilaala. Th pan staff consist con-sist of about 10 persona, made op of Americana. French, English, Italians Ital-ians aad Belgian. Th commodities section la headed head-ed by W. U Qullllnan ot Cohoea. N. T. formerly ot the United Btates army liquidation board In I'arla. Th bureau at Eisin and Welabaden ar la chare, of rl w. Era, for. marly In th accountancy department depart-ment of th Pennsylvania railroad. Th branch at up at Berlin to handle han-dle th task- of revaluallnc Uerman war material sold for reparations' waa until recently directed hy Captain Cap-tain Oliver K. Badglry ot New Tor. Another American with th com. mission la Royall Tyler ot Beaton, la charge ot tha personnel department depart-ment under th general secretary. He alee act as advlaor to the" oom-mission oom-mission when matters ana concerning con-cerning th art reasure of th late Auatro-Hungarlan monarchy, upon which the reparations commlaeion haa first Hen. Mr. Tyler's chief assistant as-sistant In tha personnel department le I. J. Nochary sf New Orleans. Heading the dyestuffs bureau of th eomiulaaton la Ksginald Noma of Oregon, who haa auperlntsnded th sals of en me loo ton of Uerman Uer-man dyestuffs te th American Trials Tri-als alliance on the commission's account- Ouy E. Greer of Kentucky Is second la the Important coal bureau bu-reau ot th commlaalop, th chief of which i an ItaJiaa. |