Connection between the counter-feiting plotters and the Bavarian anti-Semites is being investigated by the German police, according to Herr Wilhelm Weiss, director of the Police Department of the German Ministry of the Interior who is now in Paris.
Herr Weiss declared that the German police were doing everything in their power to discover if there were any ramifications of the sounterfeiting plot in Germany and that especial efforts had been made to run down reports that the watermarked paper was manufactured in Germany.
According to a report, the plates in the counterfeiting conspiracy were really genuine, having been seized by the German army at Lille during the war and later passing to the Fascisti. There was some counterfeiting of French notes in Germany during the war. The Austrian General Staff is then said to have conceived a plan of wholesale counterfeiting of French money, which Ludenforf, however, overruled.
These reports, which antedate the present scandal. gain interest from a cryptic statement by the Bank of France Inspector, M. Royer, at Budapest. “Windisch-Graetz and Nadossy may prove not to have been the heads of the plot, but the tools of even higher ups,” he said.
The Young Women’s Hebrew Association held its annual meeting Thursday at 31 West 110th Street. Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, acting President, read the annual report, declaring that the building must be enlarged if the association is to meet properly the demands that will be made in 1926.
More than 500,000 persons participated last year in the activities of the association, the report said. The active membership is upwards of 7,000. The work includes religious instruction, both for children and adults, courses in business. domestic science and sewing. Physical education is also an important branch of the work.
Stress is laid on the fostering of recreational and social activities. “The dancing class,” the report says, “has not only given instruction, but has also bee the basis of many enduring friendships, which in some cases have resulted in happy marriages.” The employment bureau has provided jobs for 3.837.
More than 500 girls have rooms in the building at rates up to $10 a week, based on their earnings, the report adds-Ray Hill Camp. the all-year-round vacation home, made possible short vacations for 1,206 girls.
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