GERMANY: Ill

GERMANY

According to Captain Humann, confidential representative of Herr Hugo Stinnes, that great swarthy, inscrutable industrial giant was ill in bed with inflammation of the bladder.

Hugo Stinnes is undoubtedly the most powerful man in Germany, if not in the continent of Europe. His wealth is said to be far greater than that of Henry Ford. He is the greatest coke-king in Europe, he is one of the chief oil magnates of that continent, he is a steel tsar, a hotel emperor, a shipping lord, a publisher, and a hundred other things.

All these...

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