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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20415, 9 December 1931, Page 16

Is "there , a railway porter anywhere who would refuse £400,000,000 as a tip? A member of th© House of Commons has just told the tale of how he found one in Berlin. • This huge tip was in German marks, a ten-milliarcl mark note, and the German porter at the Cologne railway station, where the porters will usually do a .lot of work tor a very little ,money, said it was not enough. The £400,000.000 note, as explained by Major; Colvill© who profrered 'it, was .not worth the paper it was printed on eight years ago. The porter would not look at it. But he looked' with eyes of gratitude at the •Ingush sixpence' which the traveller offered . lum instead. He took off his hat in his emotion., There is nothing,, says an English writer, that goes farther for its size than the English sixpence unless it be the Scottish saxpence. , ,