COURTEOUS GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1931, Page 9

COURTEOUS GERMANY.

VISITORS FROM AUCKLAND.

depressions on tour.

HOPELESS OUTLOOK FOR YOUTH.

Modern Germany is a country of courteous people. This is the opinion of Misa Lucy Carr and Miss Hilda Chapwtt, who have just returned to Auekkud from a world tour. They met with 'curtesy everywhere they went. The Gentians were friendly and helped them ? ever y way they could. On one occasion jj l the streets of Munich the tourists opened their map of the city, being quite certain which street to take, p aa they were quietly studying it a ~e t® a n gentleman lifted his hat, saying at he spoke English a little and asked he could be of any assistance. He tpfi them the direction they needed. In a border town between Germany ad Belgium, the visitors were a trifle j 6r? reac^in o the station, and while | ? Customs official was opening their i , the train was detained by his tt 6o that they could snatch up their 'cases and board it. This act of BitrU 6avc <l them from spending the ® the town, and enabled them to ec t with their boat for England, ins a ,. * n Munich they went in to Gm tlle g° ocls and as they spoke no .ii 103,11 a shop girl went away to an- , ? r . P ar t of the premises and brought anil sa 'd she had lived in London /Poke English. The visitors apolo*or taking up her time as they nee, D , ' n tend buying, but the girl slin^ em that she would be glad to am) « , 111 an ything they wished to see, em over es^a^" fj? es ® 10 P girls worked twelve hours, Bifflit 61 ". the morning till ten/ at fact ' + r th wo hours °ff for meals. In stru'oV +1. lo ?o hours an<i Jowww o es and a w Zealanders everywhere, Verv no^e d that the people, were thrLl bjr " That their clothes were noticed WaS anotlier thin S that was yo S s *-j, arr formed the opinion that the restivp T? e I,ation was hopeless and their * 1 load of debt which the Tipn°i Pay was crushing did Tinf "^ ac k across the border they c oUr i_ ex perience nearly the same kindiuJ' ? e *ther did they find the same 688 fo-Engfiak ghrang&ig,

One remarkable thing which struck the visitors in England, a pathetic fact, was that there were comparatively few men between 30 and 50 years of age about, and many of the younger generation seemed to be weaklings. This was obviously the result of the war, which had killed out one generation and starved the following one. Of poverty as such, they did not see much. This applied also to Glasgow.