GERMAN STRIKES
BERLIN SHORT OF FOOD SUPPLIES MAY BE CUT OFF BY LANDED INTERESTS By Telegraph-Press Association—Co-urrlgh Australian and NZ. Cabin Association. (Received September 30, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 29. The Berlin correspondent of the ‘‘Daily C'hroncilo’’ says that strikes are the order of. the . day. Nine- thousand men aro striking •in Berlin iron and steel works. The trouble is extending to the light and power works There are also serious strikes’among dock workers at Hamburg, ■Bremen, and Stettin. Many agricultural workers are striking " The food situation iii Berlm'ia serious. Butter has disappeared completely, and no meat is to be- had. The landed interests threaten to cut off. supplies from the towns unless higher prices aro forthcoming. Anger is growing in some townst where the townsfolk threaten to march out and burn the farmers’ crops.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10397, 30 September 1919, Page 5
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