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Show OUTSIDE MONEY USED JNGERMANY EXPERTS ARE SURPRISED AT AMOUNT OF FOREIGN MONEY NOW IN CIRCULATION Reparations Experts, Headed by Brigadier General Dawes Begins Be-gins Work on Final Task Paris, The committee of repar ation experts headed by Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes has began its final task the preparation of its report to the reparation commission. Tlie experts are anxious to frame a plan which will require no revision. The secrets of the conclusions reached by the committee with the exception of the few fundamental points already revealed, is still being well kept. All the guesses thus far hazarded are declared by members of the committee to be well beyond the mark, especially the estimates as to the amount of German capital abroad. One of the greatest surprises the experts met with in Germany, it is understood on the best authority, w-as the amount of foreign money inside that country. The total is said to have gone far beyond the expectations ex-pectations of the experts and to have contributed not a little to the individual in-dividual conclusions of some mem hers that Germany was far lietter able to pay than anyone had expected. expect-ed. General Dawes was asked by the correspondent whether Premier Poin-care Poin-care referred to him In the chamber of deputies recently when he said that one of the experts recently told a French colleague "we should have been unable to reach our present results re-sults were you not in the Ruhr." "Certainly I said it." said General Dawes. "I repeat it : 'If the French were not In the Ruhr we experts would not lie here.' "I said It as early as February. ing.1. I repeated it to my colleagues on the committee and I am telling it to you now because I believe it." Train Scatters $28,003 in Wake F.lko. New. Twenty-eight thousand dollars in currency was distributed along the Southern Pacific right of way from Cohre to Carlin, last week. This money in a mail sack, was destined de-stined for the Nevada Consolidated Copper company at Fly, and was thrown off train No. 10 as it passed through the Junction point of the Nevada Northern railroad. in some manner the sack bounced back under the wheels of the train. The sack was torn open and the currency carried car-ried along for some distance under the wheels of the train. Several bills were found in various places under the train when the ear knocker went over the cars at Carlin. One man at Cohre picked up SI TOO after the train hail passed and returned it all. Several thousand dollars were groun 1 up beneath the wheels of the train. The major portion of the money is still missing, It is reported. |