CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

" BUZZJNG LIKE BEEHIVES."

NO TRACES OF POVERTY. [BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.}' WELLINGTON. Friday. Interesting observations regarding the conditions in Germany are contained in a letter received by the Prime Minister from a personal friend, who has had a good opportunity for observation.

"I have been spending some months in Germany, and I can truthfully say that the country is buzzing like a beehive,*' states the writer of the letter. " There is no poverty here, not the slightest trace of it. Everyone is well nourished and comfortably clad, and work is in abundance. In my opinion, when Germany's debts and obligations are whittled down, as they are being very surely whittled down by her ceaseless and enormously powerful propaganda working as an everlasting universal printing press, then she will undoubtedly be enormously wealthy, because, seeing the tremendous trade she is doing, there is absolutely no reason why the mark should not go back to its pre-war value. In that case the savings of the German people will represent a truly fabulona sum. Whether our financiers have really got the right grip of the exchange prob» lern as it exists in these days, I cannot say, but certainly Germany seems to bo scoring by her manipulation of it all along the line."