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Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 21 February 1921, Page 4

Some interesting information was given by Captain G. R. Cooper, of the Stuart Star, at present lying in the Gisborne roadstead. The Stuart Star (one of Vestey Brothers’ fleet) visited Hamburg (Germany) before coming on to Gisborne. Captain Cooper said that in Hamburg all the trades seemed quite busy, the people being eager to ■work. There were no strikes in Germany. The people wished to push industries, and did not want any more wars, of which they had had enough. The captain went on to say that the feeling in Germany was very bitter against the Kaiser. The Stuart Star took a cargo of moat from Liverpool. They had a good despatch, there being plenty of men available in port to work the ship. At Hamburg one was struck by the absence of German ships they having been taken by the Allies. At the time he was there, during last November, there were in the port twelve American ships, about eight British and two Japanese. Captain Cooper had visited the port prior to the war, and he remarked that it looked much the same as in pre-war days. The people arc eager to get meat, as thev only receive an allowance of half a pound of meat a week each.