Poverty-Stricken.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19254, 8 November 1934, Page 2

Poverty-Stricken.

INDUSTRIAL GERMANY. IMPRESSIONS OF TOURIST. Politically, Germany is well organised, but industrially she is pov-erty-stricken. That was the impression of Mr. J. W. Beanland, who has just returned to Christehurch from a lengthy tour overseas. He spent some time in Germany and visited four or five of the principal cities. Poverty was very apparent, he said, The hotels and places of amusement were nearly empty, and numbers of unemployed were congregated in all the squares. During the Presidential elections there were loud-speakers erected in the squares and hotels, and from these there were regular broadcasts in which people were told how they should vote. Voting was compulsory, Mr. Beanland found no difficulty hi travelling about the country, and noticed that a considerable proportion of the people spoke English. They do not talk politics, however.