BRITISH TROOPS' DEPARTURE.
RHIMf! TOWN AFFECTED. (VXITED PRE3S ASSOCIATION— BY ELECTHIC lELSOHAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received November Irth, 8 ' p.m.) LONDON, November 16. The Berlin correspondent of the "News-Chronicle," says * black flag was hoisted at Wipsbadcp, and the ghopa were closed, to (nark the townspeople 'b resentment at the Municipal Council's failure to remedy the industrial depression, dating from the cvaeu--3sion of the British troops last year. Eight thousand flats, winch were oceypiod by British soldiers' wives and faniilips, are stll untenanted, and their formerly prosperous landlords and families are up daily at the muni-: cipal soup-kitchen. Tliree hundred former millionaires" are living on the dole.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 18 November 1930, Page 11
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103BRITISH TROOPS' DEPARTURE. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 18 November 1930, Page 11
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