Berlin, Nov. }8.
German Jews are, in principle, supposed to pay in cash the milliard mark fine imposed upon them by the State, but the Reich may decide to accept payment in certain stocks at fixed rates, "Der Deutsche Volkswirt," economic review, stated today.
Should Germany decide to accept such stocks, they would later gradually be transferred to Aryans. Bonds given out when Germany launched States locus, would be annulled, thus serving to diminish the Reich's pub-lie debt, this review added.
Estimating Jewish fortunes in Germany, it declares that the proportion of estate ownings to the total fortunes is about one in three. At the beginning of this year, Jewish-owned properties in the Reich were worth Rin. 2,400,000,000, it stated, but since then many Jews have sold their estates, In Berlim and Vienna, Jewish-owned real estate holdings came up to 60 per cent. of German-owned properties. In other towns, however, ihe proportion was much smaller, "Der Deutsche Volkswirt" concluded, —Havas.
Quoting the text of the paragraph which says: "It is the firm conviction of the Japanese Government that in the face of a new situation, fast developing in East Asia, any attempt to apply to conditions of today and tomorrow inapplicable ideas and principles of the past neither would contribute toward the establishment of real peace in East Asia, nor solve immediate issues," the ""Kokumin" said that the term "inapplicable ideas" meant a thought on the part of capitalists of Europe and America to colonize China while the term "inapplicable principle" referred to the Hay doctrine of the Open Door and Equal Opportunity.
"Therefore," the "Kokumin" states, "this should be interpreted as a Japanese suggestion that Japan is now ready to obrogate the nine-Power pact and a declaration of opposition to the conception of China held by foreigners."—Domei, New London-Paris
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