CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.
COTTON FAMINE IMMINENT.
BOASTFULNESS DEPARTING.
Times and Sydney Sun Services.
London, March "i
A neutral correspondent writes that very little of the great defeat of the German army at the Marne is known by the German people owing to the censorship. The former spirit of boastfulness has been toned down, yet there are no untoward signs that their confidence has been shaken. A cotton famine is approaching. Tho mills are working half-time, but the reserves are not yet exhausted. Many of the factories which lack cotton have closed, but there is little unemployment, as the manufacture of war materials, which has doubled and trebled, is absorbing all the noncombatants. They are paid a low rate, and work long hours, but do not complain because they consider they are working towards a final victory for Germany. Only with intense card and economy will the flour supply last until next harvest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 8
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