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Show GERMAN WAR SCANDAL DISCLOSES BIG PROFITS BERLIN Sept 3- (Correspondence (Correspond-ence ) A special commission appointed appoint-ed by the former ministry of war to audit the books of the Daintier .Motor ' Works has Issued a report which ' charges the firm with com enllng prof-I prof-I its exceeding 96,000,000 marks It Is stated that the annual balanco j sheets of tho firm during the fout i years of war production failed to In-. I elude more than S 1 ,000.000 marks I profit, which is more than tenfold the I amount of Its capital. I The report states that on the eve of Germany's big spring offensive in I 191 S tho Daimler company, which was I one or tne country g chief suppllors of ; war materials, threatened to shut down its plant unless the minlstrv of I war awarded it a liberal price ar.d j increases. The plant was then placed under military supervision and Its director j removed from office but, the commission com-mission reports, Captain Grrs, who I was supposed to supervise the mlli-I mlli-I tary control, was elected Into th com- pany's directorate and entrusted with the management of the plant. |