POOR GERMANS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 152, 28 June 1924, Page 19

POOR GERMANS.

ONLY ENOUGH MONEY TO OUTBID IN BRITISH MAHKET. England is again being flooded with and clothing for the "distressed" of that fund that their requests will not fjill on deaf ears that they take the trouble to describe in detail bow find where eaou kind of contribution should be sent, adding that: "Money may further be sent direct to individuals in Germany, preferably In Treasury Notes. No such donations will in any circumstances whatever lie subject to seizure by German authorities." The fact is that the German Government is only too anxious to get as much Kritisn money as possible into German hands. Simultaneous with these appeals for "starving Germany" comes the report that since the beginning of the year no fewer than 80.000 Germans have passed through Italy on pleasure tours, monopolising the best hotels, spending lavishly, and treating everyone with Prussian arrogance. Merchants in England are complaining that they are having to pay enhanced prices for many commodities because German competitors, with well-filled pockets artforcing prices up against them. Kven in the fur sales, which take place in London. German buyers are beating English and other dealers in the extravagant prices tney are prepared to pay for the choicest pelts. And the German Distress Helief fund and the Friends' Council fur International Services are still trying to persuade tne charitable to give to the "starving" Germans.