GERMANY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3518, 16 August 1921, Page 21

GERMANY.

“NATIONAL EMERGENCY SACRIFICE.” BERLIN, August 7. The new taxation to meet reparations includes increases on sugar from 14 to 100 marks per 100 kilograms, and on spirits from 800 to 4000 marks per hectolitre. The taxes on beer and lighting are quadrupled, and on matches and mineral waters they are doubled. The duties on bananas, dates, etc., tea, coffee, cocoa, spier s, and other luxuries aro increased. there will be new taxes on motor cars, insurance and business companies’ profits, also a levy on capital, to be called a national emergency sacrifice. B oedema king wih be legalised and taxed. REJOICINGS IN MUNICH. LONDON, August 8. The Munich correspondent of the DailyExpress states that while Britain is still suffering from the war-time liquor restrictions, the people of Alunich have joyously celebrated the return of the beer--1 drinkers’ “status quo.” A gigantic statue of Gargbrinus, the beer god, was erected in the principal hall, and the cellars were connected with the mouth of the statue, from which poured a continuous stream of beer of pre-war strength, which was supplied free. Hundreds of men, women, and children brought tankards, pots, and pans, drank to the beer god and participated in the dances. COWARDLY BAVARIAN CROWD. BERLIN, August 9. Spasmodic anti-Semitic outbreaks are still occurring. Boisterous crowds at Memmingen besieged the bouse of Rosenbaum, a Jewish dairyman, and demanded milk for the whole town. When Rosen baum declared that, acting on Government's instructions, he had sent the whole of his stock to Nurenburg, the mob demanded 1,000,000 marks for the poor, threatening him with tile gallows. The Mayor vainly tried to reason with the crowd, whom the police were powerless to disperse. Eventually the police., arrested tho dairyman in the interests of his own safety. The demonstrators followed him to prison, hung cowbells round his neck, kicked him, and spat on him, with the result that he reached the prison half dead. | The police had the greatest difficulty in j saving his life. PURCHASE OF DYE WORKS. j LONDON, August- 10. j The Berlin correspondent of die Daily | Chronicle says that the Forestal Land, | Timber, and Railway Company, a British j concern, has purchased Renner's Ham- j burg tanning and dye works, paying 5750 ! marks for each thousand mark share, totalling 14,000,000 marks. The Germans drew- the bulk of their raw materials from Argentina. The Forestal Company’s , operations are world-wide. The company j has a capital of more than £5,000,000. GERMANY'S POLKA'. PARIS, August 11. The Journal’s Berlin correspondent had an interview with Dr Wirth, who

, denied the French suggestions that Ger--1 many was attempting to drive a wedge between France and England. Such a I policy would only give Germany a pro- - visional and temporary success. “We want a policy of peace,” he said “not discord. We wish to realise our aims bv the execution of the undertakings which we contracted for, and not by threats or intrigues. Germany will be able to excute her undertakings, as the new taxation schemes are intended to raise 40,000,000,000 paper marks per year.”