| Show PAYING GERMAN e 1 how americans are paying the german indemnity is the he title ot or a an article la in a recent ii number uralic or 0 t the he literary digest which describes what appears to lo lie in an organized campaign to rob cheat and defraud american f sito rs and chilli tho the german cover aument various german geiman municipalities german geranan shopkeepers shop keepers anti and hotel managers all take part it Is hinted that the germans may be planning to pay their indemnity entirely from the forced contributions ot of the yankee ke I 1 As a starter every american entering germany is required to deposit 1000 marks with the government it Is politely called a deposit said an all official of 0 the american express company who Is authority for or the news ot of this recent german custom dut but it Is a deposit for keeps and on some pretext or other it remains in germany after this introduction into the country the american visitor Is doubly or charged for everything up to the point of all the traffic will bear it is said that in the prussian par lalmant lal ment when it reassembles a proposal will come up to charge foreign visitors to prussia a visitors tax to be fixed filed in gold marks and collected at the prewar pre war rate ot of exchange the tentatively pre proposed posed charge Is four gold marks per day visitors therefore are to be charged 1 per day tor for the privilege of spending their other dollars in prussia sla numerous complaints made by americans who pave been fleeced by the germac government Goern go eminent ment german shopkeeper shop keeper or germani hotel managers have been confirmed by many american diplomatic and consular representatives re presen tat ives who have informed the state department at washington Washing tom requesting intervention on the bulletin boards of the american consulate general in beilin beilla as well as in all american official buildings throughout germany there appeared au official olli cial warning to americans telling them not to laake purchases in il germany on account of the german i system ot of holding up americans at bremen and hamburg as well as at inland frontiera lera taking the goods from them and fining filling them heavily chis 1 I his is done under the german law demanding from 50 to cen cent taxes payable to we the government on all articles tor for export I 1 throughout germany the consular offices are piled with protests from americans claiming that tho the shop inform them it is not necessary to pay the export tax where upon the custom confiscated their opera glasses clo iuca baggage aud and valuables german americans many of whom are now visiting the fatherland Va therland for the arst time since defore the great war tare fare no better than native amer leans it is reported they are all included under the term baroug Amerika ners and are soaked three or tour four times tile the regular charges tor for hotel accommodations and merchandise 1 purchases I 1 while germany la is the worst offender in this respect it is reported that choso prevail in a other parts of 0 europe with a result that vast nun num lois beis of americans who would otherwise go on tours abroad are turning their attention to tire the many attract I 1 I 1 ions of the united states tor for travel and recreation in other words there thera is ia a decided movement summed lip in the term sue see ameilia first |
