Notes

Hans Sarasani, circus owner, who was about to leave Germany for a South American tour, advertised for 300 employees of various kinds. Sixty thousand people applied.

There was a mad rush in Berlin when the Government announced the first issue of 142,000,000 rentenmarks, which is to replace the worthless paper mark. The press, indignant, demanded that the Government take steps to prevent a similar disturbance when the next issue is given out.

Herr Wilhelm Cuno, ex-Chancellor, in London from his recent trip to the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 24), denied that he had planned a big shipping deal with U. S. concerns. "I am here for the same reason I went to New York --I want to pick up the threads of the shipping business which I was forced to drop when I became Chancellor. I am in London to renew old acquaintances."

The Times of London published a report from its Washington correspondent that the U. S. Government was preparing to spend $150,000,000 upon the purchase of food in the U. S. for Germany. The Coolidge Administration subsequently gave a "positive denial" of the report.