RUSSIAN TRADE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 6

RUSSIAN TRADE

ADVERTISEMENTS REVEAL WHAT GERMANY BUYS FLIGHT OF CURRENCY ! LONDON, May 4, Conditions of life inside Germany are revealed by advertisements in German newspapers. A correspondent signing himself "A German in Exile," writes in the Manchester Guardian: "A striking feature in all the papers is the "wanted" advertisements, furniture and vacuum cleaners, typewriters and office equipment, second-hand clothes (including underclothing), musical instruments, carpets, books, jewellery and objects of art, trunks, sewing machines, tools, pistols, land, houses, factories —an endless series. Articles advertised for sale, on the contrary, are few indeed. This is plain evidence of the flight from the currency. "A tragedy lies behind an official sales advertisement—that of the sale of auction by the taxation auth orities of the complete furniture and appointments of an elegant I house formerty in Jewish ownership. "The boom in Russian business is evidenced by the many advertisements offering services as interpreter in Russian. "A striking feature of the local news is the frequency of reports 'of suicide, not only by elderly people, but of men and women of 20 to 40 pears of age, not af ew of whom take their children's lives, "Almost daily the police secure penalties for "improper uss'" of taxi, by hiring them for journeys •vhicli it is possible to make by :ram, bus or U-.Balin (Underground) fo take a taxi to a theatre is M - inrently regarded as particularly leinous."