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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16424, 18 January 1919, Page 6

So long as there are Germans left who will pay £22 for a gallon of wine, that country is evidently not vet in the last throes of starvation. That is the price at which a cask of Eltviller Taubcrsberg was sold at the recent auctions of Rhine wines of the 1917 vintage. Tho total results, too, of the wine auction for all Germany show that the people are spending remarkably large sums for wine. The spring auctions, covering mostly wines of the 1917 vintage, brought in a total of 13,200,000 dole., reckoning at the normal rate of exchange. The significance of this sum becomes evident when it is stated that the larger vintages for the year before /f ,er T fc rou g*it more than dols. It is a noteworthy picture, §ays the "New York Tribune." trermanv, staggering to. its fall in a military and political sense, yet the armies of war profiteers are falling oTer each other to buy luxurious wines.