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Show oo NEW WAY TO GET RICH. That man Hugo s'lnnes l nt only n financier, but a schemer and drearu er, if he is correctly understood by James A Tillman, a promoter who is suing the German Croesus for breach of contract. Stlnnes sought money in the United States and this is how be proceeded Stlnnes was to obtain $100,000,000 in the United States on hK promissory promis-sory note, unsecured. With this mon ey, the German financier was to buy marks at the exchange rate of 100,-000 100,-000 marks for $120. With the marks Stlnnes was to purchase mortgages In Germany at their fare or pre-war value in marks, send the mortgages to 'America as collateral Tor a two billion dollar loan, based on pre-war value Stlnnes told Tillman he would not be observed by American bankers in 'this manipulation. Stinnes either has a pocr oplnon 'of American financiers or he Is a builder of castles In the air and a dreamer of wild dreams. |