Show NOBLEMEN STILL DRAW ANNUITIES BERLIN Aug A g. g 27 By l By The Asso so Associated elated cI tEd Press Sixteen Press Sixteen princes dukes ules c and counts of the old German empire have ha drawn dr wn from the German re republican re- re publican coffers in the last three years ears the sum of gold marks or about abo t according to a statement Issued by the Pre Pre- Prussian Prussian sian finance ministry n in reply to a question in the Diet These payments pa-ments the statement ex explains ex- ex explains explains plains take the place of annuities granted after the revolution re to for for- former former mer heads of petty German states stat vi were ere payable In paper pap l' l marks The sum sun total mar m r amounted In Ih the Ii jUaton on year 1923 93 to the merest fraction of one American American can cent C l t. t Nothing apparently was W forgotten 01 or o neglected by the noble claimants in demanding compensation for the loss los lo s of privileges p many of them dat dat- dating dating ing from the middle ages The fourth of six sectional heads under the thc annuities were detailed gives particulars par par- rs of compensations for lor the thc to lo loof toof of postal privileges t for vac ic owner owner- ownership ship chip of serfs and even en for Cor the rights right to collect rags and bone bonss |