PEACE TIPS
WALL-STREET MAN'S PERSPICACITY. (Received January 31, 1.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, 50th January. Mr. Baruch,' a. well-known Wall-street financier, testified .at the Congressional Committee that he had not any advance information , regarding President Wilson's Note, but that he made 476,000 dollars on the Stock Exchange in thirteom days in. December. When he'road Mr. Lloyd George's speech in the House of Commons on 19th December, followed by the rejection .of Germany's peace offer, with the word "but," he accepted the "but" as a peace tip, and sold 28,400 shares in steel short. (Received January 31, 1.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, 30th January. . Afc the resumption of the enquiry into the leakage of information, regarding President Wilson's Note, Mr. Baruch, a leading Wall-street broker, testified that he made £100,000; profit, late in December, simply because he had foresight in interpreting He'rr Holwegg and Mr. Lloyd George's speeches and their effects on peace. He insisted that he was not aided by leakage of information from Washington.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 8
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163PEACE TIPS Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 8
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