PALESTINE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 30 December 1922, Page 7

PALESTINE.

TRADE WITH GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. t BY CABLE—PRESS' ASSOCIATIOg—COPYEIGHT Received Dec. "30, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. A report dealing with a civil administration of Palestine between July 1, i 1920, and December 31, 1921, shows that seven thousand immigrants en-. ter&d the country under the Jewish national home policy, but owing to the dearth of immigration during the war it was doubtful whether the Jewish .1 population was now greater than in' 1914. A. feature of -the period had been the great increase in the imports from Germany and Austria, not merely due to depreciated currencies and low exchanges, but to the determined efforts of German merchants to get a footing in Palestine. Their methods extended to catalogues and price lists in the vernacular and this considerably impressed Palestine, importers.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.