Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-27 | Page 9 | Financial Collapse of Germany is near [Illegible]

Financial Collapse of Germany Is NeanH BERLIN', April 2 6. Germany's J financial collaimt? is near, according to H a statement made before the national assembly today by Dr. "Virtht minister of the treasury, while presenting; the budget Tor the comine year. The mln-ister mln-ister attacked war profitoors, who, he declared, ' ""are turning the nation's economic plight to their own adVan- Dr. Wirth declared the army And jH navy budgots reached their present dimensions because Germany wm maintaining a paid defense force. which former enemies should tako into account in demobilizing- the old ' Dr, "Wirth favored the flotation of an internal loan and demanded that Germany's obligations Imposed by the treaty Of Versailles should be fixed.