PROSPERITY OF GERMANY

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17028, 30 April 1923, Page 7

PROSPERITY OF GERMANY

■AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE FLOURISHING. TALES OF MISERY DISCOUNTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received April 30, 9.43 a.m.) LCSMOOM, April 29. The Berlin correspondent of the “ Daily Express,” referring to Lord Buckmaster’s statement in the House of Lords, that the life of the German people today was one of great misery, states that a tour of Berlin shows the contrary to he the case. " The masses of Germany are leading a life of great prosperity,” he writes. “ There has been an amazing growth of buildings, including factories, farms, and dwellings. Outside the capital, food is cheap and abundant. It is calculated that there are now five times more motorists than before the war. Agriculturalists are probably better off than at any previous period in history, and commercial men are hardly less flourishing. The Ruhr capitalists have had gigantic credits opened in their favour to enable them to carry on thsir resistance. “ It was true that the middle class, especially the intellectuals, hati suffered severely, many being crushed out of existence, but their piacos had been taken by others springing from different strata of society.”