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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1921, Page 9

An English lady in Germany, writing to a friend in Christchurch from Cologne, where she was working u iih the British troops, states that she is t horouahly 1 mijoying the music there. She has taken tickets far a series of 12 concerts a ! a cost of IBs—ls Cd a concert. The mark then was of the value of 320 to the Eng lish sovereign. She was also consulting a famous aui'ist, and paid him 4s for eac’. of his visits, while her board bill came to £1 18s a month. She says: “All here are working a«s hard as ever they can and do not seem to care about the thousand milliard of marks they haye sent away as reparation payments.” She also adds that, on September 5. the British troops had to bilesia,