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Show GERMANY PAYS FOR AN AUTO Chicago Man Receives 12,000 Marks for Car Worth Only 14,000 When New. Chicago. The efficiency of the German Ger-man government is shown in more ways that one according to Ferdinand Bunte of this city. One of these ways not so well known is the promptness with which the government pays its debts. Mr. Bunte exhibited a letter-from an agent of the military commission in Stuttgart, informing him that 12,000 marks had been deposited to his credit cred-it in a German bank by the government. govern-ment. "I keep an automobile in a garage in Stuttgart," he said, "for I go to Europe every year to see my daughters daugh-ters and five grandchildren. I went to Europe last February and was caught in the war. My automobile, which cost me 14,000 marks, was commandeered com-mandeered by the government for use In the army. Two days later the military mili-tary commission paid 12,000 marks for the automobile. I had used the automobile auto-mobile for a year, and this was a good price." |