DARK DAYS

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 4852, 30 July 1923, Page 2

DARK DAYS

FACING A SERIOUS CRISIS IN

GERMANY

MORE MLITTERINGS OF CIVIL WAR.

(By Electric Cable— Copyright.) (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Now York, July 27. I'lxe mark declined to i,iii,HJL) to ,ho dollar (-Is 2d), thus directly rotectiug Germany's wholesale issue or .aper marks, ot winch two trdlions »uc miiijx printed daily, without sign ot abatement

London, July 28

A Daily Express correspondent says: ,'lie most amusing sights witnessed uifcely are those of poop:e going to restaurants carrying bundles of notes wrapped in newspapers to pay bills. There is a perfect orgy of profiteering. Twice this week a leading hotel increased its charges lor rooms. The prices for foodstuffs change two oi throo times daily. Hotels are basing prices on the pound or dollar, but this is just as senseless as everything else.

Cl EX EU Ah UNEASINESS. London, July 29

The Sumlav Express’ Berlin correspondent states that the resignation ot the German Cabinet, or reconstruction is expected. . The Centre Party and Socialists are combinin'* against the Communists to hold the German Empire together against the possibility of a Soviet Govermunent or it ova I ist intrigues. Soldiers and armed police in motor cars have been drafted into Berlin, i i anticipation of an attempt by Coinimiiiiets to hold tlicir prohibited demonstration at Potsdam to-day. General uneasiness is causing an exodus of Germans and foreigners, thousands of whom have gone from Berlin to Holland or to relatives in the country.