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Show Uy Says German Mark Worth About Cent i I Detective William A. TaIor re- eolved a letter from his 19-ycnr-oId ! son, Chris A. Taylor, today. Chris is with the Third provost guard com-' com-' party of tho American army of occupation occu-pation and Is staildncd at Cobk-nv Germany. According to the' letter, the lot of the American soldier Is.- not at all hard in Germany at the present time. The German people. Chris reports, treat American soldiers with deference, defer-ence, having considerable respect for tho American dollars, which, according accord-ing to the American army rate of exchange ex-change for the latter part of March,, was worth 75 Gorman marks. 1 Taylor stated in his letter that' Ger-man Ger-man marks, which before the war represented approximately a quarter' of a dollar, have depreciated in value' until they are now worth one ana uj third cents. I A copy of the special-edition of tne' "Amerock," American newspaper published In Germany, announcing' the recent revolutionary movements in Germany, was forwarded to this city. ' i Taylor states that mail service con-j tinues to be bad, even though the war! has been ended. i |