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Show uu GERMANY PLANS TO CARRY BUT PEACE TERMS BERLIN, Tuesday, Aug 19 (By the Associated Press) A bill providing ; ways and means for carrying out the peace terms was presented before the .national assembly at Weimar yester-Iday yester-Iday with the approval of the imperial I council. Its purpose is to set definite i limits and establish control of all sons I of activities in commerce, finance and , Industries bearing on the means of ! meeting the responsibilities laid upon Germany by the conditions of peae. It empowers the government, for in-' in-' stance, to demand and enforce incre.-! incre.-! trial, mercantile and forest work 'closely concerned with tho work of paving indemnities. The government 1 is authorized to demand information about wages and material and may in--1 1 ' 1 the books, papers and business documents of firms as well as tlx prices, adjust labor conditions and supervise the efficiency of industrial equipment. BERLIN. Tuesday. Aug 19. (By the Associated Press) As a result of ihe continued downward trend of the i German mark, the food controller har-orderSd har-orderSd the discontinuance of purchas-es purchas-es in Holland and Denmark. Newspapers in discussing the problem, prob-lem, declare the western frontier has virtually ceased lo exist in view of the .unchecked Influx ol American, French 'and English commodities across the Rhine Illicit traffic through "the hole on the Rhine" IS said to have a-sumed a-sumed such proportions as to preclude the possibility of customs or other control. As a volume of trade increases increas-es the amount of German money required re-quired to finance it moves upward to an accelerated pace and results in the further depreciation of the mark |