CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.
RAW MATERIAL ALL USED.
CHILDREN'S PITIFUL PLIGHT
With Bibles among the cargo in her holds, the Gottingen. the second German steamer to visit Australia since the war, arrived at Sydney recently. Her officers told" of life in Germany. "It has never been harder," they said. " Small children are seen in the street gutters gathering fragments of food, and even these fragments are very scarce in the streets of Germany. " Work in Germany is not scarce, but the mark is so low and variable that if a man earns enough money a week t<s buv his week's rations he considers himself fortunate. , " Four months ago it was possible in Ge--manv to secure a fine car for an bnglish pound, but those days are apparently over. The manufacturer cannot now get the material to produce, his article. It seems that all the material in Germany iias now been consumed. The officers of the Gottingen showed much interest in French affairs. When handed a copv of a newspaper the officers eagerlr sought for the rate of exchange "in "France. One pronounced the English words of " getting worse.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18277, 19 December 1922, Page 11
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187CONDITIONS IN GERMANY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18277, 19 December 1922, Page 11
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