DUTCH BULBS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 287, 4 December 1941, Page 5

DUTCH BULBS

AND NAZI BUYERS

"MUST NOT BE SCARED OFF"

LONDON.

Economists attached to the German army of occupation are systematically destroying the worldfamous Dutch bulb industry by dumping huge quantities of valuable tubers in Germany and the occupied countries at bargain prices. Reports reaching here from the Continent state that the Nazi-con-trolled Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Cou-

rant was advertising a special daffodil which formerly sold for 20 dollars each in the United States for sale in Germany at 12 dollars per hundred.

I Nazi economists were said to be forcing Netherlands' bulb growers to spend 100,000 marks (40,000 dollars) to advertise their products in Germany. The Germans have promised orders totalling 4,000.000 marks (1,600,000 dollars) but at prices which are only a fraction of those obtained in Great Britain and the United States before the war.

Many varieties of tulips and daffodils grown in Holland were unknown in pre-war Gremany as these varieties were reserved exclusively faith? British and American markets. They now are being advertised in Germany and the occupied coun-1 tries at drastically reduced prices "because the German public must] not be scared off."—Auckland Star' and N.A.N.A. I