GERMAN EXACTIONS IN POLAND.
Soma aocoiuvt^ mostly derived from offici.al figures, of ;,thß ■German I ' exactions m Russian Poland has recently been published m Britain. (From Lodz £3,---000,000 worth of machinery and raw materials has been taken away, atod from Czestochowa £1,800,000 worth, m November, 1914^ the' Russians, owinff" to the general distress, suspended •"'■s%- ■ eral taxes, but the Germans remiposM v them, and actually increased many 6i' them. Numerous new taxes have-* also been introduced. Warsaw and Lodz' sire now .probably It-he poorest industrial cities m Europe. The starving psbpie have to raise onerous loans through' the. " * German banks m order to keep them-, .selves alive while paying tha cbntrib^r. ' • tions and taxes. The sale of vodk^', prohibited by the Russians, is again c , permitted/ and from this ' the, . Qernliins; ' draw a monthly revenue of : "abtfcutr 0 £700.0,00. ♦ Altogether, tlie Germans^ flio drawing from the ravaged part ofRussian Poland which they occupy. ap- v proximately the same income ,13 tfie" Russiu.ua drew jn peace from the whola country. i :
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14046, 17 July 1916, Page 4
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