ECONOMIC STRAIN
THE GERMAN SYSTEM
STOCKS OF RAW MATERIALS DEPLETED
RUBBER SHORTAGE
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received February 8, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, February 7.
Reports reaching London reflect the strain on the German economic system.
In the textile industry, for example, independent evidence suggests that many German mills are working at only 50 per cent, of their capacity, and the depletion of cotton stocks is compelling them to use mixtures such as cotton and spun silk and cottonised flax and artificial silk.
The shortage of rubber is believed to be more serious, and Germany is understood to be attempting to obtain tyres indirectly, both by purchase through adjoining neutral countries, few of which are producers, and by offering cars without tyres, on specially advantageous terms, to those countries on condition that they import tyres from elsewhere. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 11
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135ECONOMIC STRAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 11
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