IN GERMANY.
CONDITION OF TEXTILE TRADE. Telegraph—Press Associa-tiori—Copyright, i-ustra-lian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. September 20. ' The “ Morning Post’s” special Berlin correspondent doubts the capacity the German textile industry to con* Jidbute its quota to reparation. The is in an unstable condition. is greatly handicapped by the fall pi efficiency of works during the war, ;abor.r troubles and the Rhine Customs ba.n-ier. It is clear that Germany can only pay by surrendering a large proportion of the profit of her foreign trade. Spindles now working in Germany are CO to SO per cent of those m operation before the war. Franco is misusing th© clause in the Peace Treaty, which permits Alsace-Lorraine to send the same quantity of goods as were exported in pre-war times. Thus when French trade begins to flag Germany is inundated with French textiles.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16537, 22 September 1921, Page 2
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